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"Promise me you'll shoot yourself" : the mass suicide of ordinary Germans in 1945 / Florian Huber ; translated by Imogen Taylor.

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  • ISBN: 9780316534307
  • ISBN: 0316534307
  • Physical Description: vi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First North American edition
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2020.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292).
Formatted Contents Note:
Four days in Demmin. River without bridges ; War without limits ; The eyes of the enemy ; Tower of darkness ; The ghosts of Demmin -- Demmin is everywhere. A voice from the bombed-out temple ; A wave rolling over the Reich ; The teacher and his wife ; Hell machine ; Death in the west ; The waxworks of Leipzig ; City without hope ; The dark figure -- Tumultuous emotions. The wound that was Germany ; Hungry and fanatical ; Torches in winter, violets in March ; Part of something greater ; An inner rift ; The happy years ; In love with the Führer ; The smell of fear ; Victors ; A sense of foreboding ; The shadow of others ; Frozen soul -- The pull of silence. Curtaining off reality ; An inability to feel ; Victims ; Ghosts of the forgotten.
Subject: Suicide > Germany > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Psychological aspects.
National socialism > Germany > Psychological aspects.
History.
Germany > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
Germany > Social conditions > 1933-1945.

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