What is the saddest photo featuring Hitler? There's a photo from 1936 showing Hitler walking alongside young Helga Goebbels, and it's become one of the most haunting images connected to him, not for what it shows in the moment, but for what we know happened to her less than a decade later. Hitler reportedly had genuine fondness for the Goebbels children, and Helga in particular was said to be something of a favorite of his. But that closeness didn't protect her from the horror that would ultimately be inflicted on her by her own parents in the war's final days. As the Nazi regime collapsed in the spring of 1945, Magda Goebbels became convinced that she and her children needed to die alongside the collapse of the ideology she'd devoted herself to. Despite offers made to help get the children to safety, she refused all of them. Her plan was to sedate her children with morphine first, and once they were unconscious, administer cyanide by crushing capsules between the...