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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792261503321

Autore

Goeschel Christian

Titolo

Suicide in Nazi Germany [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Goeschel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-160891-2

0-19-960611-0

9786612053238

1-282-05323-X

0-19-156756-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

362.28/2094309043

943.085

Soggetti

Suicide - Germany - History

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Note to the reader; Introduction; 1. The Weimar Background; 2. Suicide under the Swastika, 1933-1939; 3. Suicides of German Jews, 1933-1945; 4. Wartime suicides, 1939-1944; 5. Downfall; Conclusion; Notes; Statistical Appendix; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The Third Reich met its end in the spring of 1945 in an unparalleled wave of suicides. Goeschel analyses the Third Reich's self-destructiveness and the suicides of ordinary people and Nazis in Germany from 1918 until 1945, including the mass suicides of German Jews during the Holocaust. - ;The Third Reich met its end in the spring of 1945 in an unparalleled wave of suicides. Hitler, Goebbels, Bormann, Himmler and later Goering all killed themselves. These deaths represent only the tip of an iceberg of a massive wave of suicides that also touched upon ordinary lives. As this suicide epidemic ha