Figure 1.--The Goebbels family appeared in several scenes. Here the children sing in front of Hitler. |
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A particularly heartrendering scene deals with the Goebbels children. They are shown singing to some German soldiers. One of these chilren is a boy, he wears a white shirt, black short trousers held up by braces. The children wear typical middle class clothing of the Nazi period. The girls all wear wash dresses with ankle socks. The boy wears shorts (with detachable suspenders), knee socks, and a white shirt. The children later are given a sleeping draft so that their mother can adminster a capsule containing poison. Dr. and Mrs. Goebels could not conceive of the children growing up in Germany without the Führer. After poisoning the children, they committed suicide themselves as the Russian Army was closing in on the bunker.
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