The Devil of the Third Reich
Magda Goebbels was known as the most powerful woman in Nazi Germany. As the wife of Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda, she held a significant position in the Third Reich. Her beauty and charm were unmatched, and she was known to be a fierce supporter of Hitler’s ideals.
However, behind closed doors, Magda was a different person. Her husband was well aware of her cold and calculating nature, but he had never seen her like this before. As they sat in their bunker, surrounded by the chaos of the crumbling Third Reich, Goebbels begged his wife to spare the children.
‘We can hide them in another country,’ he pleaded. ‘They will be safe there.’
But Magda’s unblinking gaze was adamant. Never. No way. She will not agree to be defeated, she will not survive if her angels go far away. Once upon a time, her own father called Magda a she-devil. In the last days of the Third Reich, Goebbels would have agreed with him.
The war had taken its toll on Magda. She had lost all sense of humanity and was willing to do whatever it takes to protect Hitler’s vision. As the Russians closed in on Berlin, Magda was determined to take her own life and that of her six children.
But before she could carry out her plan, a young girl was brought into the bunker. Her name was Augusta, and she was only five years old. The child had been found wandering the streets, and her parents were nowhere to be seen.
Magda took an interest in the young girl and ordered her to be brought to her quarters. As she sat with the child, Magda noticed something strange about her. The girl had a haunting gaze, and she could stare for hours without blinking.
‘Look at the look in her eyes!’ Oscar Ritschel, one of Hitler’s advisors, exclaimed. ‘He’s freezing! It’s not a child…she’s been possessed by evil forces!’
Magda was intrigued by this revelation. She believed in the power of evil and saw this as an opportunity to prove herself to Hitler. She decided to keep the girl with her and began to teach her the ways of the Third Reich.
As the war raged on, Magda’s grip on reality began to loosen. She started to see the child as a manifestation of her own evil. She believed that she could transfer her powers to the child and continue to serve Hitler’s cause even after her death.
Augusta, on the other hand, was just a young girl who had been separated from her family. She didn’t understand the things that Magda was teaching her, but she knew that she was safe with her.
As the bunker was surrounded by the Russians, Magda knew that her time was running out. She gathered her children and Augusta in her room, ready to carry out her plan. But as she looked into the innocent eyes of the young girl, she hesitated.
Augusta reminded her of her own children, and in that moment, Magda realized the true horror of her actions. She had become the very thing her father had warned her about — a she-devil. In a moment of clarity, she decided to spare the children and take her own life.
As the bunker was raided, Augusta was found unharmed, clutching onto Magda’s lifeless body. She was returned to her family, and as she grew older, she tried to make sense of the things she had witnessed in the bunker.
The Devil of the Third Reich had been defeated, and Augusta was just a young girl who had been caught in the middle of it all. But she would never forget the woman who showed her kindness in the midst of chaos and taught her the true cost of evil.
