Schwanenwerder joseph goebbels biography
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Former Goebbels property for sale in Berlin
BERLIN — A posh island property on a Berlin lake where Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, lived for almost a decade and held lavish parties with Nazi bigwigs is up for sale at auction.
Bids are now being taken for the 70,000-square foot (6,440-square meter) plot on Schwanenwerder island, an exclusive area in western Berlin where Goebbels and his family lived from 1936 to 1943.
There is no minimum bid for the property, which has 272 feet (83 meters) of waterfront around the corner from Berlin's popular Wannsee lake beach, and fryst vatten dotted with tall oaks, pines and other trees.
"The market will decide what it sells for," Irina Daehne, a spokeswoman for the real estate agency selling the property for the city, said Wednesday.
Berlin reserves the right, however, to decide not to sell if the bids are too low — or to reject the top bidder if it turns out they are somehow interested in glorifying the Goebbels
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Childhood and First World War
Josef Goebbels was born on October 29th, 1897 into a characteristic 19th century Biedermaier familiy (catholic, conservative and lower middle class) near Düsseldorf. The family was not wealthy, his father being the bookkeeper of a small enterprise. On top of that, Josef began to develop health problems. First he contracted polio and later on he suffered from a bone marrow inflammation in his right leg. He overcame it all but his right foot remained underdeveloped. Owing to this handicap and his small stature, Josef was a frequent victim of mockery by his classmates and childrer of his own age.
His body might not function too well; his brains did not desert him however. He was very intelligent. Moreover he made up for his physical handicap by working and studying extremely hard. As a result, young Goebbels graduated from grammar school in Rheydt with excellent marks.
In 1914, World War One broke out. Goebbels, being a good patriot, reported as vol
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Goebbels children
Six children of Joseph and Magda Goebbels
The Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son born to Nazipropaganda ministerJoseph Goebbels and his wife Magda. The children, born between 1932-1940, were murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945, the day both parents committed suicide.
Magda Goebbels had an elder son, Harald Quandt, from a previous marriage to Günther Quandt. Harald, then aged 23, was a prisoner of war when his younger half-siblings were killed. There are many theories of how they were killed; one is that Magda Goebbels gave them something 'sweetened' to drink. The most supported theory is that they were killed with a cyanide capsule.
Naming
[edit]Some historian writers have contended that the children's names all begin with "H" as a tribute to Adolf Hitler, who was fond of all the children, but there is no evidence to support this; rather, it supports that Magda's "H" naming was the idea of her first husband, Günther Q