Goebbels: A Biography by Peter Longerich

Author:Peter Longerich [Longerich, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Europe, Germany, Historical, Holocaust, Nonfiction, Retail
ISBN: 9781400067510
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Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Published: 2015-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

RESTORING HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HITLER

In the autumn of 1940 it appeared as if Goebbels’s hard work in the field of war propaganda was going to be rewarded in another fashion. It seemed as if the Goebbels family would succeed in restoring their close relationship with Hitler. When Goebbels was staying in Kraków at the beginning of September, he had a telephone call from Magda in which she told him that the day before, Hitler had called while they were celebrating Helga’s birthday at Schwanenwerder and had given her a very generous present. “I find that sweet of him.”128 A few days later, now in Berlin, Goebbels received Hitler for tea at home. “The Führer played with the children as if the outside world no longer existed,” noted the proud father.129

When in October Goebbels was suffering from “stress because of overwork,” Hitler expressed concern: “The Führer orders me to make sure I get more sleep.” Goebbels responded obediently: “I must try to get some in the afternoons.”130 When, on October 29, his birthday, Magda produced another girl—they decided to call her Heide—Hitler shared the Goebbels family’s joy.131

On November 11, Magda’s birthday, Hitler surprisingly arrived in the afternoon to offer his congratulations. The Goebbelses used the opportunity to show him their new house in the Göringstrasse, which he liked “very much.” In the evening they had a small soirée there to which Hitler came, staying until four o’clock in the morning. He was “quite confident and relaxed, just like in the old days,” and talked about the political situation and vegetarianism, which he saw as a “coming religion.” Goebbels’s account of the evening reads just like a near-perfect idyll. “Apart from that, he is longing for peace, happiness, and the joys of life. We all dream of what we’re going to do when the war is over.”132 A few months later, in February 1941, Magda traveled to Obersalzberg with the children for a week, staying in the Görings’ house.133 On the telephone she told Goebbels “of her visit to Hitler: It was all very nice.”134

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