"Magda Goebbels, the First Lady of the Third Reich" by Antoine Vitkine followed by a meeting

Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 7 p.m.

France, documentary, 60 minutes, production la Compagnie des Phares et Balises, 2017.

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On 1 May 1945, in Adolf Hitler’s underground bunker in Berlin, Magda Goebbels poisoned her six children. Before taking her own life, she justified her action in a letter: "Life without Adolf Hitler is not worth living." How did Magda Goebbels, an emancipated young woman raised by a Jewish stepfather, come to this?

followed by the meeting

These dreams that we trample

Autour de la parution de Ces rêves que l'on piétine, by Sébastien Spitzer, éd. from the Observatoire, 2017.

éditions de L'Observatoire / Photo: © Lee Miller Archives, England 2017.

Under the bombing, the most powerful woman of the Third Reich is hiding with her six children in Hitler’s bunker. At the same time, among the survivors of the camps thrown on the roads, young Ava keeps a valuable leather scroll containing the letters of a father, Richard Friedländer, who was among the first Jews, to his adopted daughter: Magda Goebbels.

In the presence of director Antoine Vitkine, author Sébastien Spitzer, and historian Fabrice d'Almeida.

Hosted by Eduardo Castillo, journalist.

Rates: €5/€3