Daily fact march 29:
In early may of 1945, while the soviets were in the process of capturing the entire city of Berlin, Joseph Goebels (Naz! Germany’s propaganda minister) and his wife Magda decided to murder their 5 children (Helga died age 12, Hilda died age 11, Helmut died age 9, Holdine died age 8, Heide age four) in the Vorbunker, a bunker connected to the more known Fuhrerbunker. Their reason to do that was to keep them from being captured and humiliated by the Russians.
The 5 children were happily sitting on the dinner table, all dressed in nightgowns, telling jokes when their mum, Magda told them to go to bed. They all obeyed her orders, following her into their room not knowing about the disaster that was gonna happen, except for helga, who had a sense of what was going on.
In the room, they were injected with morphine, which knocked them out unconscious. Then, cyanide capsules were crushed into their teeth killing them instantly.
Only Helga tried to resist but in vain, her body was found, all battered up and spotted with bruises.
Picture of the Goebbels family, 1942
Many people believe that the Goebbels children deserved this, but they did nothing wrong. Only their cruel parents deserved this treatment, and this murder was considered part of the holocaust.

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