The Sad Story of Hitler’s Favorite Children

Hitler walking with Helga Goebbels in 1936. Cervantes

Hitler had great affection for the Goebbels children. Helga was his favorite. But his deeds would lead to all their deaths.

Magda Goebbels convinced herself of the need to take not only her life, but the life of her children as well. She ignored all offers to smuggle her children to safety.

Magda decided upon knocking them out first with morphine. After they were unconscious she would’ve then finish them off by crushing cyanide capsules between their teeth.

Just one day after Hitler’s suicide on April 30, 1945, Magda, with the help of an SS doctor, administered morphine to her children , and then killed them with cyanide. A few hours after the death of her children, she and her husband, Joseph Goebbels committed suicide.

But the story does not end there. The most horrible death of the Goebbels children was that of Hitler’s favorite, Helga. It seems that the morphine she was given did not knock her out, or at least failed to keep her under for very long. At some point Helga became aware that her siblings were being murdered by having cyanide capsules crushed between their teeth. Not want wanting to die, she resisted having the same done to her.

The last moments of Helga’s life were spent in a tremendous struggle, as her mother and an SS member forced cyanide into her mouth. Later, an autopsy conducted after the bunker was captured, and photographs taken of her face, showed heavy bruising. Her jaw also seems to have been broken during the struggle to force cyanide into her mouth.