The body of Helga Goebbels, the eldest daughter of Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of Nazi Germany, was discovered in an underground bunker with her siblings on May 2, 1945, and a pathological autopsy by Soviet experts concluded that she had been poisoned with cyanide.

 　　At the end of World War II, the bodies of Helga Goebbels, the eldest daughter of Joseph Goebbels and Magda Goebbels, the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of Nazi Germany, were discovered in an underground bunker along with her siblings on May 2, 1945. An autopsy conducted by Soviet experts concluded that she had been poisoned with cyanide.

　　The report on the discovery of the bodies of the Goebbels family was summarized in a document dated May 3, 1945. On May 2, 1945, in the bunker of the German Chancellery in the center of Berlin, the partially burnt bodies of a man and a woman, the small body of a man, a right leg bent with a metal prosthesis, and partially burnt bodies were scattered. The burnt remains of a National Socialist Party member's uniform and a burnt gold party badge were found on the bodies, and next to the burnt remains of a woman, a gold cigarette case, a gold NSDAP party badge and a gold brooch were found. There were two revolvers on the head of the body. On May 3rd, the bodies of five girls and one boy aged between 3 and 14 years old were found lying on a bed in a separate room in the bunker of the Führer's residence. They were wearing light nightclothes and there were signs of poisoning.

　　The bodies were identified as those of Dr. Goebbels, his wife and their children, and all the bodies were sent to the counter-intelligence department after death for identification. Through interrogation and autopsy, the bodies were identified as those of Goebbels, his wife and their children. Goebbels' wife was identified from the partially burned body of a woman.

　　The children's bodies were identified as those of Goebbels' children. A medical examination of the bodies of the children proved that they had died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The partially burned bodies of the man, woman and six children were identified as those of Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the German Minister of Propaganda, his wife and their children. The military doctor who conducted the autopsy on the bodies of the six children mistakenly believed that the children had died of carbon monoxide poisoning and failed to notice that they had been poisoned with cyanide. The smell of cyanide was detected in the brain, and cyanide poisoning was confirmed. From the interrogation protocol of May 7, it was learned that the dentist of the SS injected 0.5cc of morphine into the arm below the elbow of each child on May 1 to make them fall asleep, and then injected an ampoule of potassium cyanide into each child. The cause of death for the Goebbels family was cyanide poisoning, not a gunshot. The pathological examination of the first family's bodies found in the bunker area concluded that they were Joseph Goebbels, his wife, and their children.