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. From diaries, letters, and memoirs, as well as eyewitness accounts, Huber examines how ordinary Germans went from national pride during the Hitler years to despair from the euphoria during the Hitler years to the despair when the Soviets arrived. Some of the suicides were the result of personal guilt, after many Germans had been swept along with the allure of the Hitler regime. Others were driven by fear of the Soviet troops, or shame — a large number of women committed suicide after being raped by Red Army soldiers. In its review of the book, The Guardian acknowledges the skill with which Huber tells these stories. The review is critical, however, of Huber's portrait of an entire nation seduced by Hitler and overwhelmed at the end of the war by 'complicity, culpability, guilt'. The reviewer calls this 'seriously inaccurate —millions of Germans were longing for the end of the ruinous regime of the Nazis by the last months of the war'. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://www.sfdj.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/912606/Default.aspx

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