Suicide in Nazi Germany
- ISBN-10
- 0199606110
- ISBN-13
- 9780199606115
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-10
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Christian Goeschel
Description
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.
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