On May 1, 1945 around 22 clock, Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide, probably with cyanide. According to the statement of Goebbels ' secretary Schwägermann Goebbels has shot himself while his wife has poisoned herself. This is contradicted by the autopsy results of the incompletely burned bodies, carried out by the Red Army. Shortly before, the SS-doctor Helmut Kunz had drugged their six children, who were then murdered by Magda Goebbels and Hitler's personal doctor Ludwig Stumpfegger with cyanide capsules.
On May 2, 1945, around 17 clock three Soviet officers entered the garden of the Reich Chancellery. Just meters away from the emergency exit of the Führerbunker they discovered the bodies of Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda; their dead children Helga, Hilde, Helmut, Holde, Hedda and Heide had already been found in the nursery of the bunker of the Reich Chancellery. Magda Goebbels had directed the murder of the children just hours before her own death.
Joseph Goebbels was the only Nazi minister who remained in the bunker with his "leader" until the last moment. "In the delirium of betrayal that surrounds the Führer, at least one man must stay with unconditional loyalty next to him", he wrote in a postscript to Hitler's political testament. No insight, no regrets.
The soviet report states: "The man's body was of low stature, the foot of the right leg (clubfoot) stuck in a half squat position, in a charred metal prosthesis; the remains of a charred party uniform of the Nazi party and a singed Golden party badge lay on him; at the charred corpse of the woman a scorched gold cigarette case was discovered; on the body a Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP and one seared golden brooch. At the head of the two bodies lay two Walther pistols No. 1"
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