Another interesting tidbit is Magada Goebbels first husband was Gunther Quant. That industrialist's family has also been awarded a contract to produce digital vaccine passports. Papers please!
The kid-turned-paratrooper
is Günther Quandt's second marriage (with Magda, a skillful social climber) younger son Harald Quandt. His older son, Herbert, was with his first wife. Günther, a wealthy industrialist, supported the NSDAP and was pivotal in their early days. The marriage with Magda didn't work out well either and she became (as she had been to Günther before marriage to him) secretary/personal assistant to Joseph Goebbels. The rest is
hormones, Hitler & history, as they say.
Günther never held a grudge against either Magda or Joseph, Harald grew up largely with the Goebbels family before he turned adult. By all accounts, Goebbels had a very good relationship with Harald which only soured in 1944 when Harald had become disillusioned from the war he (rightfully so) saw irrevocably lost (and German paratroopers generally suffered heavy losses throughout the war).
Both Günther Quandt's sons, Harald and Herbert, succeeded him as successful industrialists and founded dynasties of their own, BMW still belongs to the Herbert Quandt descendants today (Herbert saved BMW from insolvency because he believed in the brand when no one else did - he wasn't wrong). Harald died in a plane crash over the Italian Alps in the late 60ies on his way to France (ironically not too far away from the site where his unit suffered heavy casualties in WWII and where he was badly wounded too). That is why he bought our bungalow, it was in spitting distance to a sports airfield close to us, he was a hobby pilot. The other explanation is that he used our bungalow as a lair for mistresses. Much like his dad, Harald had a thing for his secretaries/personal assistants.
So it boils down to the following: Depending on your view we either live in a deserted Goebbels bunker of sorts or in a former cauldron of sinful adultery.
