German historian says he’s uncovered document showing that wife of Nazi minister of propaganda had Jewish ancestry.
A German historian is claiming that Magda Goebbels, the wife of Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, had a Jewish father. The historian, Oliver Hilmes, was looking through archives in Berlin when he found a population registry document in which a Jewish businessman named Richard Friedlander claimed that Magda was his daughter. These findings came to light over the weekend in the German daily Bild, and appear in a new book called “Berlin 1936” published recently in Germany.