Editing Joseph Goebbels (section)

==Family life==
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0724-502, Obersalzberg, Besuch Familie Goebbels bei Hitler.jpg|thumb|upright|Post-reconciliation photo commissioned by Hitler, 1938{{sfn|Longerich|2015|p=391}}]]
Hitler was very fond of Magda and the children.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|pp=159, 160}} He enjoyed staying at the Goebbels' Berlin apartment, where he could relax.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|p=160}} Magda had a close relationship with Hitler, and became a member of his small coterie of female friends.{{sfn|Manvell|Fraenkel|2010|p=94}} She also became an unofficial representative of the regime, receiving letters from all over Germany from women with questions about domestic matters or child custody issues.{{sfn|Thacker|2010|p=179}}

In 1936, Goebbels met the Czech actress [[Lída Baarová]] and by the winter of 1937 began an intense affair with her.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|pp=317, 318}} Magda had a long conversation with Hitler about it on 15 August 1938.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|p=392}} Unwilling to put up with a scandal involving one of his top ministers, Hitler demanded that Goebbels break off the relationship.{{sfn|Manvell|Fraenkel|2010|p=170}} Thereafter, Joseph and Magda seemed to reach a truce until the end of September.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|p=392}} The couple had another falling out at that point, and again Hitler became involved, insisting the couple stay together.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|pp=392–395}} He arranged for publicity photos to be taken of himself with the reconciled couple in October.{{sfn|Longerich|2015|pp=391, 395}} Goebbels also had short-term affairs and relationships with numerous other women.{{sfn|Manvell|Fraenkel|2010|pp=167–169}} Magda too had affairs, including a relationship with [[Kurt Lüdecke]] in 1933{{sfn|Longerich|2015|p=317}} and [[Karl Hanke]] in 1938.{{sfn|Thacker|2010|p=204}}

The Goebbels family included [[Harald Quandt]] (Magda's son from her first marriage; b. 1921),{{sfn|Longerich|2015|p=152}} plus Helga (b. 1932), Hilde (b. 1934), Helmut (b. 1935), Holde (b. 1937), Hedda (b. 1938), and Heide (b. 1940).{{sfn|Manvell|Fraenkel|2010|p=165}} Harald was the only member of the family to survive the war.{{sfn|Thacker|2010|p=149}} He died in an aeroplane crash in 1967.{{sfn|Der Spiegel|1967}}