Magda Goebbels

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Despite the number of books about the Third Reich, little attention is usually paid to the women who lived alongside the Nazi leaders. Magda Goebbels (1901-1945) is arguably the most contradictory and the most intriguing among them. What made a beautiful and intelligent woman go from being deeply in love with the ardent Zionist leader Victor Chaim Arlosoroff to marrying Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda and a ferocious anti-Semite In the eyes of many people, Magda Goebbels was the "First Lady" of the Reich, owing to Hitler's lifelong attachment to her. How did this devoted mother of six, the poster-child of family values during the Third Reich, turn into Medea and poison these same children Anja Klabunde's biography examines her complex life.

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* 'Never less than gripping' - Michael Burleigh, Mail on Sunday * 'Klabunde has pieced together a chilling story that confirms the outsider's greatest fears about those within the Nazi Party elite' - Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Herald * An engaging and lucid account of a supposed anomaly: a cultivated woman at the heart of the Nazi regime' - Literary Review

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Anja Klabunde works regularly for the French/German cultural TV channel Canal Plus/Arte. She lives near Paris with her husband and two sons.