TY - BOOK AU - Huber,Florian AU - Taylor,Imogen TI - Promise me you'll shoot yourself: the downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945 SN - 9780241399248 U1 - 943.086019 23 PY - 2019/// CY - [London] UK PB - Allen Lane KW - Suicide KW - Germany KW - History KW - 20th century KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Psychological aspects KW - National socialism KW - 1933-1945 KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions N1 - 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 ER -