«Magda Goebbels, the first lady of the third Reich» by Antoine Vitkine followed by a meeting

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On 1 May 1945, in Adolf Hitler’s underground bunker in Berlin, Magda Goebbels poisons her six children. Before committing suicide, she justifies her gesture in a letter: "Life without Adolf Hitler is not worth living." How did Magda Goebbels, an emancipated young woman raised by a Jewish stepfather, get there?

followed by the meeting

These dreams that we trample

editions of L'Observatoire / Photo: © Lee Miller Archives, England 2017.

Under the bombings, 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 precious leather scroll containing the letters of a father, Richard Friedländer, who was among the first Jews, to his adoptive daughter: Magda Goebbels.