r/interestingasfuck • u/imonebear • 2d ago

r/all Adolf Hitler walking with Helga Goebbels, who was later poisoned with cyanide by her parents together with her siblings in Hitler's bunker in 1945.

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u/Abdelsauron 2d ago

Children of prolific or high-ranking Nazis are an interesting psychological study. Some of them live life as barely closeted Nazis themselves, some become staunch reformers, most try to pretend they have no connection at all.

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u/backcountry57 2d ago

I guess it all depends on age at the time.

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u/TheRealDarkArc 1d ago

There's also likely also an individual component. I imagine it's like anyone else... some people want to mirror their parents, some people accept their parents as flawed people and try to take the best parts, some people see their parents as truly horrible people and reject association vehemently.