30 April 1945. Adolf and Eva Hitler lay in the garden of the Reich Chancellery. Thick black smoke was rising into the sky, it was sucked through the air intakes into the bunker, spreading the smell of petrol and bitterness over the floors...
Not far away, the first Russian mortar shells burst, attracted by the smoke column, and all those present at the Führer's cremation hurriedly threw up their hands and hurried back behind the concrete door.
Goebbels was left alone. In front of him lay Hitler's body engulfed in flames, Berlin was burning around him, and his own words, written in 1926, were pounding in his head: ‘Maybe there will come a day when everything will collapse, when the mob will cry out: “Crucify him!”. Then we will stand firmly and steadfastly around him and cry: ‘Bless him!’.
But in the eyes of the last Reichsführer of Germany, Joseph Goebbels, only death glowed with the tongues of the funeral fire. And the faces of his own children, whom he had condemned to death. Goebbels stood alone and no one else was around.
They met in 1930 at a Nazi convention. The small, lame and shouty dwarf and the gorgeous Magda Quant, reveling in her husband's money after his divorce. Money and beauty allowed Magda Quant to do nothing, live a beautiful life in Berlin, and drive aristocrats crazy.
Nazism was becoming fashionable and one day she was called to listen to the Nazis in the hotel ‘Sportpalast’. Dr Joseph Goebbels was speaking there, the little dwarf instantly fascinated her. An incredibly skillful orator, he seemed stunningly intelligent and ironic, quite unlike the boring bankers, barons and peddlers Magda had dealt with.
The little limping dwarf, not at all handsome, revealed himself to be a dark demon suppressing her will. The crowd around Magda whispered and moved to the beat of his every word. Goebbels' voice beckoned to her, made her get up from her chair. Then tender, then gentle, then beat Magda through, like a whip. After that evening, Magda decided that Goebbels was the man. So she went to work for him to win him over.
And then one day Josef turned his attention to Magda. At first the conversations in his office were about politics, then about them personally. The girl felt that his interest in her was growing, along with his desire. Magda was ready to give him on the table for the first time, but Goebbels cut off rapprochement and simply went away, disappearing for weeks.
Magda felt stupid and strange. She just could not understand that despite all the greatness and party career, Goebbels in his heart remained a small dwarf, which gorgeous Magda inspired fear. She represented everything that Joseph had never known: education, manners, society, wealth.
Goebbels, who knew no timidity in front of a mooing crowd, did not dare to ask Magda out. He was afraid that he would dress in the wrong way, would speak in the wrong way, and would hold his fork incorrectly. For the first time in his life, Josef met a woman who made him feel inferior.
And instead of tenderness and rapprochement, Goebbels began to behave rudely with Magda. It ended with Magda quitting her job and leaving Berlin, and the chief ran after her like a whimpering puppy. Ten days later he found her on the Riga seashore, apologized, asked for forgiveness.
Goebbels said he loved her and would be happy to marry her. And that he wants Magda Kvant to become the mother of his children, the lord of his heart and life. But for all that, he cannot swear eternal fidelity to her because he belongs to Germany. Such sacrifice, strange and great at the same time ... Magda has agreed to marry Goebbels, this Nazi demon is simply out of this world and better than everyone else.
In November 1931, proud of his victory, Goebbels presented Magda to the Führer. Unaware that Hitler had already seduced Eva Braun, Goebbels would yield to Magda if the Führer desired her. Magda was 30 years old, at the zenith of feminine beauty, seasoned with manners and aristocratic gloss. The perfect companion for a leader, the perfect wife for the Aryan future.
But Hitler had Eva. Magda married Joseph Goebbels, the Fuhrer was at their wedding. With the stroke of a pen, the girl broke with the past and became Magda Goebbels. She chose National Socialism, as it seemed to her, a world of incredible people and will. And even the fact that the church refused to marry, did not embarrass Magda. She also broke with Jesus Christ, for the new God, Adolf Hitler, filled her heart without a trace....