Dimensions
145 x 225 x 39mm
While there is a remarkable amount of literature chronicling Germany's era of National Socialism, very little of it details the women who lived alonside the top-ranging Nazis.
Magda Goebbels is arguably the most contradictory and intriguing of these: a beautiful and intelligent woman, she went from being deeply in love with Zionist leader Victor Chaim Arlosoroff to marrying Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda; the devoted mother of six and role model of Nazi family values, who turned Medea and poisoned her young children.
Anja Klabunde's impeccably researched biography explores how such an intelligent and charming woman could fall victim to this fanaticism. The result is a fascinating account of a life that mirrors the tragedy and illusion of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.
