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Florian Huber

Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The mass suicides of ordinary Germans in 1945 by Florian Huber, translated by Imogen Taylor

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September 2019, no. 414
Alexander Wells reviews 'Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself: The mass suicides of ordinary Germans in 1945' by Florian Huber, translated by Imogen Taylor

Everyone knows about the final days of Adolf Hitler – his abject suicide in a clammy Berlin bunker. Many prominent Nazis followed suit, including the master propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who broadcast messages to the public espousing the virtue of death over defeat. His wife, Magdalena, wrote ...

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