https://youtube.com/watch?v=wBaEQ9grmYM [Embed] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Goebbels "When Magda was five, her mother sent her to Cologne to stay with her ex-husband. In 1908, her mother married Richard Friedländer, a wealthy Jewish merchant who worked in Brussels, who adopted Magda and whose surname she adopted" "Further contacts with Ritschel, a member of the Krefeld Masonic Lodge in Duisburg, Magda may have been introduced there to Buddhism.
"In 2016, it was reported that Friedländer may have been actually Magda's biological father, as stated in his residency card, found in the Berlin archives by writer and historian Oliver Hilmes." "Awards:Golden Party Badge. Cross of Honor of the German Mother" "While in Berlin, Magda befriended Lisa Arlosoroff and later became intimate with her brother Victor Haim, an ardent Zionist. During her relationship with Arlosoroff, she briefly wore a Star of David he had given her and joined him to the Jewish youth club meetings. However the relationship did not last but the two remained in contact during the 1920s until Victor's immigration to (British ruled) Palestine, where he later headed the Political Dept.of the Jewish Agency." "In 1920, while returning to school on a train, she met Günther Quandt, a rich German industrialist twice her age. Thereafter, he courted her with courtesy and grand gestures. He demanded that she change her surname back to Ritschel, when converting from Catholicism to Quandt's Protestantism." "In October 1927, the couple went on a two-month visit to the United States, to conduct a business with the Lloyd Electric Storage Battery Co. of Philadelphia(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exide). In 1929, Quandt discovered that Magda was having an affair, so they separated, then went on to divorce that same year, which terms were however quite generous with Magda." "In 1930, Magda attended a meeting of the Nazi Party where she was impressed by one of the speakers, Joseph Goebbels, then the Gauleiter of Berlin.She and Goebbels became romantically involved while on a short trip with friends to Weimar in February 1931. A relationship began and by April they began making plans for their future together. Goebbels wrote in his diary, "We have made a solemn vow to each other: When we have conquered the Reich, we will become man and wife. I am very happy." Her flat on Theodor-Heuss-Platz (then named the Reichskanzlerplatz) soon became a favourite meeting place for Adolf Hitler and other NSDAP officials." "Otto Wagener claims that Magda's marriage to Goebbels was somewhat arranged; since Hitler intended to remain unmarried, it was suggested that as the wife of a leading and highly visible Nazi official she might eventually act as "first lady of the Third Reich". Magda was an ambitious woman with social connections and upper class bearing that may have influenced Goebbels' own enthusiasm."
