Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself

Informationen zum Autor Florian Huber is a writer and documentary maker. He was born in Nuremberg in 1967. He has written four books about German history of which this is the first to be translated into English. He lives in Hamburg. Imogen Taylor is a literary translator based in Berlin. Klappentext The massive wave of suicides carried out by ordinary Germans across the final days of the Second World War has remained mysterious but is investigated here, revealing the fates of small towns in revealing depth and presenting an insight into the intensity of feeling during and after life in a fascist regime. Zusammenfassung The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third Reich A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019 One of the last untold stories of the Third Reich is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but by thousands of ordinary Germans, in the war's closing period. Some of these were provoked by straightforward terror in the face of advancing Soviet troops or by personal guilt, but many could not be explained in such relatively straightforward terms. Florian Huber's remarkable book, a bestseller in Germany, confronts this terrible phenomenon. Other countries have suffered defeat, but not responded in the same way. What drove whole families, who in many cases had already withstood years of deprivation, aerial bombing and deaths in battle, to do this? In a brilliantly written, thoughtful and original work, Huber sees the entire project of the Third Reich as a sequence of almost overwhelming emotions and scenes for many Germans. He describes some of the key events which shaped the period from the First World War to the end of the Second, showing how the sheer intensity, allure and ferocity of Hitler's regime swept along millions. Its sudden end was, for many of them, simply impossible to absorb. ...

Product details

• Authors: Florian Huber
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780241399248
• ISBN: 978-0-241-39924-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Germany, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Holocaust, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, The Holocaust, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and cultural history, Far-right political ideologies and movements, 1933–1945 (National Socialist period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)