Magda Goebbels, the first lady of the Nazis

2023-08-09T14:24:47.154Z

Highlights: Magda Quandt (1901-1945) was the First Lady of the Third Reich. Mother of 7 children, nicknamed the "greatest mother of the Reich", she embodies the ideal woman advocated by the regime. On May 1, 1945, the day after Hitler's suicide, Magda Goebbels made each of her children swallow a cyanide capsule before committing suicide with her husband.Guest: Johann Chapoutot, historian, professor of contemporary history at Sorbonne University, specialist in the history of Germany and Nazism.

She was the First Lady of the Third Reich. In 1931, Magda Quandt (1901-1945) married Joseph Goebbels, a Nazi Party official and close friend of Adolf Hitler who was appointed Minister of People's Education and Propaganda in March 1933, at the advent of the Third Reich. Mother of 7 children, nicknamed the "greatest mother of the Reich", she embodies the ideal woman advocated by the regime. On May 1, 1945, the day after Hitler's suicide, Magda Goebbels made everyone swallow a capsule of cyanide before committing suicide with her husband.