 Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda poisoned their six children with cyanide (to Junge's horror) and their bodies were found, in their beds in the "Vorbunker", by the Soviets a few days later.Goebbels and his wife either committed suicide or had the SS guards shoot them ("eyewitness" accounts differ on this point).Eventually, Junge and others still in the bunker complex were led out by SS-"Brigadeführer" Wilhelm Mohnke to try and break out of the Soviet encirclement.