Being a parent myself, this scene left me completely broken... I went to hug my baby right away after watching that!
That's a complete brainwash to make a parent to kill his/hers infants for a political extremist cause...
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I think it was more that Goebbels knew that the end was near. He knew he was guilty as hell of war crimes and wanted to spare his family the shame of living past the war. He also knew what may have happenned to his family when they were found.
shareI saw a documentary about WWII what happened to children(Norway or Denmark?) who were fathered by German men with local girls. After the war these children were mistreated in the most awful ways imaginable. Worse than death in my opinion.
shareThese people were just sick, insane.
shareNo, that was a kind of 'old tradition'.
Who cannot win, needs to leave.
And ebhaynz above you described what happened to the ones who didn't 'leave'.
For further reading:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyskerbarn
ABBA-member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was "tyskerbarn" also.
She was very, very lucky.
Perhaps what bothers me the most about this scene is how bad I feel for the children, yet their father was responsible for the torture and murder of perhaps millions of other children. Since the other children are nameless and faceless, there is no story associated with them and the connection is harder to make.
Why is the death of these innocents so powerful relative to all of the other innocent deaths caused by Nazi Germany?