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Authors: Emma Craigie
Upper Storm Leader Rach
â Gunther Rach â a Nazi driver (dates unknown). It is not known what became of him.
Victor (Chaim) Arlosoroff
, 1899-1933, was a Russianborn Zionist with whom Magda had an affair before, and probably during, her first marriage. His sisters, Lisa Arlosoroff-Steinberg and Dora Arlosoroff, were Magda's close teenage friends. Victor was
murdered
in Palestine in 1933. Memorial services were held for him in cities throughout the world, including Berlin.
Wilfried von Oven
, 1912-2008, was press officer for Josef Goebbels. He was born and died in South America.
All personal titles and those place names which lend themselves to interpretation have been translated into English to give a sense of their meaning to Helga.
My first acknowledgement is to the film
Downfall
, which inspired this book. I have also drawn on lots of books, principally:
Angela Lambert,
The Lost Life of Eva Braun
(2006).
Anja Klabunde,
Magda Goebbels
(2001).
Anonymous,
A Woman in Berlin
(2000).
Armin D. Lehmann with Tim Carroll,
In Hitler's Bunker
(2004).
Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven,
In the Bunker with Hitler
(2005).
David Irving,
Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich
(1996).
Gitta Sereny,
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
(1995).
H.R. Trevor-Roper,
Hitler's Table Talk
(1953).
Hans-Otto Miessner,
Magda Goebbels
(1980).
Ian Kershaw,
Hitler
, 2 vols (1998, 2000).
Joachim Fest,
Inside Hitler's Bunker
(2004).
Marie Vassiltchikov,
The Berlin Diaries 1940-1945
(1999).
Martin Gilbert,
The Holocaust
(1986).
Nicholas Stargardt
, Witnesses of Wa
r (2006).
Petra Fohrmann,
Die Kinder des Reichsministers
(2005) translated for me by Sonja Laue.
Ralf Georg Reuth,
Goebbels
(1993).
Traudl Junge with Melissa Muller,
Until the Final Hour
(2003).
Various editions of Josef Goebbels' diaries.
I also made use of Google and Wikipedia for links to the Goebbels' home movies.
I'd like to thank everyone who gave me and lent me books and films or pointed me in the right direction â
Sasha and Anna Gunin, William Rees-Mogg, Charlotte Rees-Mogg, Jo Glanville, Miranda Cresswell, Tom Weldon, Rebecca Nicolson. Thanks also to Alan Judd for his advice and to Tom Flatt for his thoughts about wolves. I also want to thank Anja Toddington and Sonja Laue for their help with translation. I have
hugely
benefited from Sonja's imaginative involvement with this project. A big thank you to my aunt Elizabeth Bruegger for sharing her memories of life in a Nazi family in 1938 and for requesting and translating the personal memories of Hildegard Forstermann, to whom I am also very grateful. Thanks also to Rudolf Kortokraks for sharing his memories of his German childhood. Thank you to Jonny White, Charlotte
Rees-Mogg
, Kate Hubbard and David Craigie for reading drafts. Thank you to Rebecca Nicolson and Emily Fox for their enthusiasm and to Aurea Carpenter and Vanessa Webb for their constructive and detailed engagement with the text. Thank you to Tom Baldwin for the great title. Thanks to Jess Bell for all her
neighbourly
support. Love and thanks to my parents for all their support. Big love and thanks to David for his encouragement and to Maud, Wilf, Myfanwy and Samuel for bearing so much talk of the Nazis.
First published in 2009
by Short Books
3A Exmouth House
Pine Street
London EC1R 0JH
This ebook edition first published in 2011
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