After Hitler's suicide, life changed in the bunker, each of its inhabitants tried to save themselves. The next day, May 1, a shocking event occurred:Goebbels (one of the Nazi leaders who played the greatest role in the history of Nazism and Hitler's right-hand man) and his wife Magda (a fanatical follower of Hitler) committed suicide after removing life to their six children. Their names were Helga Susanne, Hildegard "Hilde" Traudel, Helmut Christian, Holdine "Holde" Kathrin, Hedwig "Hedda" Johanna, and Heidrun "Heide" Elisabeth (their names all began with H after Hitler's first letter) . It was Magda Goebbles herself who administered a sleeping pill and then a dose of poison. The oldest was 12 years old, the youngest four.
"The world that comes after the Führer and National Socialism is not worth living. That is why I have brought the children here, because the life they would lead after us would be painful. A merciful God You'll understand me if I release them myself" . Letter from Magda to Harald, son of her first marriage. April 28, 1945.

“We will take them with us because they are too beautiful for the world to come ”. As a justification for the poisoning of their children.

Goebbels did not want to be arrested, interrogated, perhaps tortured and sentenced. He followed the example of Hitler, he preferred to die rather than fall into the hands of the victors. A few hours after having murdered his children, the Goebbels couple went up to the courtyard of the Chancellery, there, Goebbels shot her wife's heart, then took a cyanide pill and shot himself in the head. SS guards deposited the bodies in a shell crater and incinerated them with gasoline.

The Russians discovered the bodies of the six children and the remains of the Goebbels couple and took them away. They were buried at the KGB headquarters in Magdeburg in 1946. Later, in the 1970s, KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov ordered a full cremation of the remains. His ashes were thrown into the Elbe River, other remains were thrown into a sewer...