All for the Führer
At last: Magda Goebbels as the leading lady! That was a role she aspired to play during the Nazi regime. Rich and ravishing, Magda was looking for an ideology that could lend meaning to her life. After having flirted with various different isms (including Buddhism and even Zionism), she eventually became enchanted with Nazism.
She would have preferred to marry the Führer himself in order to become the first First Lady of the Third Reich. Unfortunately for her, Hitler had other plans. In the tragicomedy All for the Führer, we see how Magda makes her first concession by marrying the Nazi minister of propaganda, Goebbels, who was Hitler's right-hand man. As one of Hitler's many favourite women, Magda has many rivals, such as Emmy Göring, which leads to many hilarious scenes.
Primarily to live up to the image of the ideal Nazi woman, she has six children with Joseph Goebbels. Meanwhile, she resigns herself to Goebbels's countless amorous escapades and accepts that Hitler will never permit her to divorce. Did Magda never have any doubts? Did she never wonder what would happen if Germany lost the war? Did she continue to see Hitler as the ideal leader until the end, or did she feel imprisoned in the murderous Nazi regime and was she unable to escape from it? In All for the Führer we see the fascinating story of a foolish woman who, faced with the downfall of the Third Reich, makes her final concession: She poisons her children before proceeding to take her own life.
