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Promise me you'll shoot yourself : the downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945 / Florian Huber ; translated from the German by Imogen Taylor.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: [London] UK : Allen Lane, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780241399248
  • 0241399246
Other title:
  • Promise me you will shoot yourself
  • Downfall of ordinary Germans, 1945
Uniform titles:
  • Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschiesst. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 943.086019  23 H878
Contents:
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.
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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.