Descendants of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels' wife have become the richest family in Germany. Magda Goebbels, who was one of the most influential women in the Nazi regime, married Hitler's close ally in 1931. The children of Harald Quandt, her son from a previous marriage, have just seen their family reach a combined net worth of about £24.5billion. Scroll down for video Family photo: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels with his wife Magda and their children, as well as Magda's son from a previous marriage, Harald Quandt (in uniform), whose family has become the richest in Germany The Quandts, who hold a 46.7 per cent stake in German car manufacturers BMW, have now overtaken the founders of supermarket giants Lidl and Aldi, who had topped the nation's rich list for the last decade, according to Manager magazine.
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Magda Goebbels' descendants own a 46.7 per cent stake in BMW
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Her son from a previous marriage, Harald Quandt, inherited a huge fortune
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German family are now the richest in Germany, overtaking Aldi's owners
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Harald was the only of Magda Goebbels' children to survive World War II
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She and Goebbels murdered her other six children before killing themselves
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