page_title: Goebbels children
section_title: Helmut Christian
hierarchical_section_title: Goebbels children / Children / Helmut Christian
caption_attribution_description: Information added by Wikimedia users.Deutsch: Obersalzberg, Besuch Familie Goebbels bei Adolf Hitler, Der Führer wieder auf dem Obersalzberg. Bei einem Besuch auf dem Kehlstein mit seinen Gästen, Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels und Frau mit ihren Kindern Helga, Hilde und Helmut.English: Obersalzberg, the family Goebbels visit Adolf Hitler, "Der Führer" is back in Obersalzberg. At a visit in a cozy hour with his guests, the minister Doctor Goebbels and wife with their children Helga, Hilde and Helmut.
context_page_description: The Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son born to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels. The children, born between 1932 and 1940, were murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945, the day both parents committed suicide.
  Magda Goebbels had an elder son, Harald Quandt, from a previous marriage to Günther Quandt. Harald, then aged 23, was a prisoner of war when his younger half-siblings were killed. There are many theories of how they were killed; one is that Goebbels gave them something 'sweetened' to drink. Currently, the most supported theory is that they were killed with a cyanide capsule.
context_section_description: Born on 2 October 1935, Helmut was considered sensitive and something of a dreamer. In his diary, Goebbels called him a "clown". When his teacher at the Lanke primary school reported, to his father's dismay, that his promotion to a higher form was doubtful, he responded well to intense tutoring from his mother and his governess and achieved promotion to the next grade. He wore braces on his teeth.
  On 26 April 1945, Helmut read aloud his father's birthday speech to Hitler, and responded to Helga's protests that he was copying their father by arguing that, no, their father had copied him.
  On 30 April 1945, the boy was rude to a 15-year-old nurse who tended to the wounded in the bunker complex. The nurse, Johanna Ruf, slapped young Helmut. She did not know the boy was the son of Goebbels until later. Later that day, Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge stated that while she was with the children in the Führerbunker they heard the sound of Hitler's self-inflicted gunshot. Helmut, who mistakenly took it for the sound of a mortar landing nearby, shouted, "That was a bullseye!" Helmut was nine years old at the time of his death.
caption: Magda and Joseph Goebbels with their children, Hilde (left), Helmut (center), and Helga (right), visit Hitler on the Obersalzberg, Kehlstein House, 1938.
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