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Magda Goebbels

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Magda Goebbels
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anja Klabunde
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 128
Category/GenreThe Holocaust
ISBN/Barcode 9780751534481
ClassificationsDewey:943.086092
Audience
General
Illustrations Section: 16, b/w

Publishing Details

Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint Time Warner Paperbacks
Publication Date 1 May 2003
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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

Reviews

* '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