By Express News Service |Updated: June 21, 2019 10:37:42 am
Tip for Reading List: The Mass Suicides in 1945 Germany
Florian Huber’s Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans is a bestseller in Gemany and has been released in an English-language version.
In 1945, after the Third Reich fell and Soviet troops started marching into Germany, tens of thousands of Germans committed suicide. These included not just Nazi leaders but also ordinary citizens, sometimes entire families. Some shot themselves, others consumed poison and some, in the town of Demmin that saw an estimated 1,000 suicides, drowned themselves in the rivers. An author and documentary filmmaker looks at the reasons why.
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