German POWs, Elbe

Surrender Hans Goebbels

1945

Silent

Without subtitles

7:46 Min.

 

Hans Goebbels, the son of Fritz Goebbels and Katharina Odenhausen, was born in Rheydt, Germany, in 1895. His father was a bookkeeper at the United Wick Factories. He was the older brother of Joseph Goebbels. When he was a teenager, he began a relationship with Maria Liffers. Joseph wrote her passionate letters that were found by Maria's parents. They visited the Goebbels home and told the family what had happened. This resulted in Hans threatening to cut his throat with a razor.

 

During the First World War Hans Goebbels served on the Western Front. He became a manager of an insurance company and joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in 1929.

 

At the end of the Second World War he was captured by the United States Army. Hans Goebbels was handed over to the French authorities and he died in an internment camp on 13th August 1947.

 

 

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Film Nr. 18

German language

Without subtitles

20:32 Min.

 

 

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Film Nr. 25

German language

Without subtitles

20:14 Min.