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    Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Ritschel (11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. During the Battle of Berlin, the two poisoned their six children before killing themselves.

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    Johanna Maria Magdalena Ritschel was born in Berlin, German Empire on 11 November 1901, and her parents divorced soon after her birth. In 2016, it was revealed that her true father may have been a Jewish leather goods magnate and not her German father, Oskar Ritschel. She married the German industrialist Gunther Quandt (who was twice her age) in 1921, and she converted from Catholicism to Protestantism. However, she grew angry due to her husband's frequent absence, and she had an affair. In 1929, her husband discovered this, and he annulled their marriage.

    In 1930, Ritschel joined the Nazi Party, having been impressed by a speech given by Berlin gauleiter Joseph Goebbels. They married in December 1931 with Adolf Hitler himself as a witness

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    Magda Goebbels

    Wife of Nazi Propaganda Minister namn Goebbels (1901–1945)

    Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (néeRitschel; 11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister namn Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion, and political supporter of Adolf Hitler.[1] Some historians refer to her as the unofficial "first lady" of Nazi Germany, while others give that title to Emmy Göring.

    With defeat imminent during the Battle of Berlin at the end of World War II in Europe, she and her husband poisoned their six children with a cyanide compound before committing suicide in the Reich Chancellery gardens. Her eldest son, Harald Quandt, from a previous marriage to Günther Quandt, survived her.

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    Magda was born in 1901 in Berlin, Germany, to an unwed couple, Auguste Behrend and building contractor and engineer Oskar Ritschel. The couple were married later that year