The Wives of the Top Nazi Leaders — the Women Who Married Monsters

Why did they choose to marry war criminals and murderers?

Peter Preskar
Lessons from History
7 min readMay 5, 2021

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Eva Braun (left), Magda Goebbels (center), and Emmy Goering (right) (Image of Braun: moviefit.me, image of Goebbels:bild.de, and image of Goering: mirror.co.uk)

Yes, also the Nazi leaders got married. Some married out of love, some out of convenience. Yet, they still choose Holocaust and World War II over peaceful family life.

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