*** From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomasz Iwanowski) Wednesday May 2 2:14 PM ET Nazi Leader Goebbels' Jewish Relative Died in Camp BERLIN (Reuters) - The wife of top Hitler aide Joseph Goebbels, one of the most fanatical anti-Semites among the Nazi leadership, had a Jewish stepfather who died in a concentration camp, a German television channel said Wednesday. The documentary series ``Hitler's Women'' on the public channel ZDF said Magda Goebbels' stepfather, Richard Friedlaender, who her mother divorced when she was young, died in a camp because he was Jewish and could not get help from his powerful relatives. ``At one point my grandfather had the idea of speaking to his son-in-law and went to the ministry,'' Michael Tutsch, Friedlaender's grandson, told the program, referring to the Berlin Propaganda Ministry that Goebbels headed. ``When he got to the office he must have been shocked to recognize his father-in-law. He turned to his aide and said 'ask what this Jew Friedlaender wants here','' he said. ``He did this and thus the conversation was finished for my grandfather.'' Friedlaender was sent to do hard labor at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in 1938. He died there the following year. ``One word from his daughter-in-law or her prominent husband could have saved Friedlaender's life,'' the program concluded. Although historians have long known Magda Goebbels' mother, Auguste Behrend, had married and divorced Friedlaender, who was working as a waiter in a Berlin cafe when he was arrested, his eventual fate had not previously been well known. Magda and Joseph Goebbels killed their six children and then committed suicide in Hitler's bunker in the closing days of World War Two. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ =============================================================== Lista 'Forum Zagraniczne' Administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archiwum: http://www.mail-archive.com/forum.zagraniczne@3w3.net
