Anja Klabunde schildert das schwer widersprüchliche Leben der Magda Goebbels. Unehelich geboren, vom jüdischen Stiefvater liebevoll aufgezogen, erlebt Magda ihre erste große Liebe zu dem jüdischen Intellektuellen Victor Arlosoroff. Er begeistert sie für die Idee des jüdischen Staates. Als er nach Palästina geht, heiratet Magda den Industriellen Quandt und taucht in die Welt des Großbürgertums ein, doch die Ehe scheitert. Magda lernt das Propagandagenie Joseph Goebbels kennen und stellt sich bedingungslos in den Dienst der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung. Bis zum bitteren Ende: 1945 vergiftet sie sich und ihre sechs Kinder.

Zusatztext This thoroughly researched biography explores how a beautiful and intelligent woman turned into a fanatic. Informationen zum Autor Anja Klabunde works regularly for the French/German cultural TV channel Canal Plus/Arte. She lives near Paris with her husband and two sons. Klappentext During the past twenty years, innumerable books about the Third Reich have been published, but little attention has been paid to the women who lived alongside the Nazi leaders. Magda Goebbels (1901-1945) is arguably the most contradictory and the most intriguing among them. What made a beautiful and intelligent woman go from being deeply in love with the ardent Zionist leader Victor Chaim Arlosoroff to marrying Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda and a ferocious anti-Semite? Indeed, in the eyes of many people she was the 'First Lady' of the Reich, owing to Hitler's lifelong attachment to her. How could the devoted mother of six, the poster-child of family values during the Third Reich, turn into Medea and poison these six children? Anja Klabunde's thoroughly researched and remarkable biography for the first time brings together these stunning facts. Remarkable biography of the complex and tragic 'First Lady' of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels Zusammenfassung Remarkable biography of the complex and tragic 'First Lady' of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels

Vorwort

• Remarkable biography of the complex and tragic 'First Lady' of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels

  Autorentext
  Anja Klabunde works regularly for the French/German cultural TV channel Canal Plus/Arte. She lives near Paris with her husband and two sons.

  Klappentext

  During the past twenty years, innumerable books about the Third Reich have been published, but little attention has been paid to the women who lived alongside the Nazi leaders. Magda Goebbels (1901-1945) is arguably the most contradictory and the most intriguing among them. What made a beautiful and intelligent woman go from being deeply in love with the ardent Zionist leader Victor Chaim Arlosoroff to marrying Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda and a ferocious anti-Semite? Indeed, in the eyes of many people she was the 'First Lady' of the Reich, owing to Hitler's lifelong attachment to her. How could the devoted mother of six, the poster-child of family values during the Third Reich, turn into Medea and poison these six children? Anja Klabunde's thoroughly researched and remarkable biography for the first time brings together these stunning facts.

  Zusammenfassung

• Remarkable biography of the complex and tragic 'First Lady' of the Third Reich, Magda Goebbels