Magda Goebbels

Why? Do you know why? For marrying a Protestant.

Magda Goebbels was a Protestant and a divorcee.

Joseph Goebbels had the sacraments withdrawn from him.

That's the only case I know of a Nazi being threatened with discipline by the Roman Catholic Church.

guess I've heard about the letter.

Well, she'd written, I'll tell you briefly if you like, she'd written a book review for an English paper called Books and Bookmen, and it was a book about the Goebbels family, a history of the Goebbels family, and the editor of Books and Bookmen thought, what fun to get.

Dana Moseley is right about the Goebbelses, so she'd written a review in which she'd said, Joseph and Magda Goebbels was madly sweet and delicious little lunches they'd serve.

And Sunday wasn't Sunday without a trip over to see them and charm itself.

And she went on in this vein.

They were so kind and having a good time.

They said, well, yeah, but Magda Goebbels made a wonderful strudel.

She was the wife of one of the architects of genocide in World War II, who ended up going on to kill herself and her six children.

It's a good reminder that just because someone's capable of ordinary, polite things does not cancel out or excuse moral corruption or violence.

They fall asleep and go unconscious.

And then Magda Goebbels, Joseph's wife, comes in and puts cyanide in each of their mouths.

crushes it on their teeth one by one by one by one by one, which is all six of them die.

As a parent, neither of us are

Unlike her slick husband, who is, like most politicians, alternately charming and slimy in interviews and genuinely seems to relish media attention, Jeanette is not.

She doesn't do a ton of media, but in this interview the Rubios did with America's Magda Goebbels, Katie Miller, Jeanette lets Marco do about 80% of the talking.

And the rest of the time, she seems annoyed that she's being asked to field questions from a woman she's much prettier than.

Quiet fives.

Very difficult to square a circle like that.

And in fact, Hitler used, uh, Magda Goebbels, who was Joseph Goebbels' wife, as this kind of, um, model of the kind of w- the mother of the Third Reich-

Right

... because she was, you know, she, they, they had more than s- they had six children, um, the, the Goebbelses, and they, they were kind of the model to, to be emulated, and she was mother of the Reich, so she was kind of the public face-

... or kind of almost like, I can't say a poster girl, but-

Who is she the poster girl for? Because like, so obviously the SS officers are under a huge amount of pressure to have your family history checked and presumably go through a physical and marry.

The women that they are targeting, was this propaganda issued to, specifically to women, like Magda Goebbels? Was it, was it targeted at schoolgirls, for example?

Um, I would say that it was targeted to the girls of the Nazi girls' youth group-