- She was murdered in Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker by her mother through poisoning by a broken cyanide capsule after being put to sleep and given a morphine injection by Schutzstaffel (SS) doctors.
- Daughter of Joseph Goebbels and Magda Goebbels.
- She and her siblings were all given first names starting with the letter H by their mother as a tribute to Adolf Hitler.
- Preferred her father over her mother and was described as a "Daddy's girl".
- Loved reading.
- Played the piano.
- During April of 1940, Helga and her father often went on long walks in which he enjoyed "talking wisely" with her.
- Adolf Hitler frequently spoiled her lavishly on her birthday, buying innumerable presents.
- While in Hitler's Bunker, Helga knew the Germans had lost the war and was aware of the severity of the situation.
- When she was a baby, her father would often balance her on his knee during meetings held in his house.
- Attended Lanke Primary School.
- Had an operation on her throat in 1939.
- Learnt English.
- During a public occasion in 1936, she and her sister, Hilde, presented Hitler with flowers on his birthday.
- Hitler had once remarked that if he were twenty years younger and Helga twenty years older, she would be the perfect wife for him.
- Although generally considered to be the brightest of all the Goebbels children, Helga began falling behind with her school work in 1944 owing to noticing how anxious and depressed her mother and father were increasingly becoming.
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