Tue, Feb 20, 2001
Several "bride schools" were set up with the aim of providing the perfect partners for Adolf Hitler's henchmen. Regulations dictated that young women would be taught "washing, cooking, childcare and home design" before they could walk up the aisle with the men who would staff death camps and rule conquered lands with an iron fist. They were also instructed in social niceties - such as how to hold conversations at cocktail parties - and how to bring up their children worshipping not God or Jesus Christ, but Hitler. The League of German Girls, Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) was the girls' wing of the Nazi Party youth movement, the Hitler Youth. In 1936, Nazi supporter and school graduate Hildegard Trutz was recruited as one of Germany's racially 'pure' women, chosen to have sex with SS officers in the hope of producing an Aryan child.
Tue, Feb 27, 2001
Chronicles the life of Joseph Goebbel's wife Magda, who rose to the pinnacle of the Nazi hierarchy alongside her husband and who, when the Reich collapsed, committed suicide with him and their six children in the Berlin bunker. Magda married the multi-millionaire Günther Quandt in 1921 but the couple divorced in 1929. Now Magda was on the verge of marrying Mr. Hoover, nephew to President Hoover, but instead she found herself in a massive Nazi meeting in the Berlin Sportpalast, where she became captivated by the speaker, Joseph Goebbels.