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| | Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | William Boyd: Hitler on screen |
 | | Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda and their six children (aged between five and 12, one boy, five girls) arrived in the bunker on April 22. |
 | | The children's lively presence, their charm, the sense of "fun" they brought with them as they scampered up and down the corridors, sang and played games, added another bizarre element to the grotesque surreality of the place. |
 | | The saurian, club-footed Goebbels had always been a serial womaniser; Magda herself had affairs and when in 1939 she demanded a divorce (provoked by Goebbels's intense relationship with the actress Lida Baarova) and declared that she wanted to marry her lover Karl Hanke (a senior Nazi party official), Hitler was obliged to intervene. |
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