11. The Horrific Murder of Six Children
Once Magda Goebbels had convinced herself of the need, and even the desirability, of killing her kids, there was no turning back, and she turned a deaf ear to all offers to smuggle her children to safety. As to how she would go about killing her children, Magda decided upon knocking them out with morphine, then finishing them off by crushing cyanide capsules between their teeth. On May 1st, 1945, one day after Hitler’s suicide in his Berlin bunker, Magda, with the help of an SS doctor, administered morphine to her kids, then killed them with cyanide. A few hours later, she and Joseph Goebbels committed suicide.
The most horrific of the Goebbels children’s death was that of Hitler’s favorite girl, Helga. It seems that the morphine had not kept her under for long. At some point, she came to, became aware that her siblings were being murdered by having poisonous capsules crushed between their teeth, and resisted having the same done to her. Helga’s last moments were spent in a ferocious fight, as her mother and an SS man forced poison into her mouth. An autopsy, 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.
