Promise me you'll shoot yourself : the downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945 /
Huber, Florian, 1967-
Promise me you'll shoot yourself : the downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945 / Promise me you will shoot yourself Downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945 Florian Huber ; translated from the German by Imogen Taylor. - 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Originally published in Berlin under the title Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschiesst in 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292).
Part I: Four days in Demmin -- River without bridges -- War without limits -- The eyes of the enemy -- Tower of darkness -- The ghosts of Demmin -- Part II: Demmin is everywhere -- A voice from the bombed-out temple -- A wave rolling over the ranch -- The teacher and his wife -- Hell machine -- Death in the west -- The waxworks of Leipzig -- City without hope -- The dark figure -- Part III: 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 -- Part IV: The pull of silence -- Curtaining off reality -- An inability to feel -- Victims -- Ghosts of the forgotten.
9780241399248 0241399246
Suicide--History--Germany--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.--Germany
National socialism--Psychological aspects.
Germany--History--1933-1945.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
943.086019 / H878
Promise me you'll shoot yourself : the downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945 / Promise me you will shoot yourself Downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945 Florian Huber ; translated from the German by Imogen Taylor. - 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Originally published in Berlin under the title Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschiesst in 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292).
Part I: Four days in Demmin -- River without bridges -- War without limits -- The eyes of the enemy -- Tower of darkness -- The ghosts of Demmin -- Part II: Demmin is everywhere -- A voice from the bombed-out temple -- A wave rolling over the ranch -- The teacher and his wife -- Hell machine -- Death in the west -- The waxworks of Leipzig -- City without hope -- The dark figure -- Part III: 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 -- Part IV: The pull of silence -- Curtaining off reality -- An inability to feel -- Victims -- Ghosts of the forgotten.
9780241399248 0241399246
Suicide--History--Germany--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.--Germany
National socialism--Psychological aspects.
Germany--History--1933-1945.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
943.086019 / H878