Prométeme que te pegarás un tiro

The suicide epidemic that swept Germany when Nazism fell. In 1945, the Third Reich fell and Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. But he was not the only one who decided to end his life. With the fall of the Nazi regime, thousands of ordinary Germans hanged, shot, poisoned or drowned, following the Führer to his death. Many of these deaths were caused by terror at the advance of Soviet troops or by feelings of guilt, but, as is often the case, the explanation is not so simple. Florian Huber masterfully explores the reason for this terrible phenomenon. Germany has not been the only country to lose a war, but nowhere else has the response been so cataclysmic. Other countries, like Japan, had a culture of honor suicide, but not Germany. What, then, led entire families to end their lives, even to kill children and babies? In this original and brilliant historical investigation, Huber explores the roots and consequences of the relationship between the Germans and the Third Reich and leads to a new understanding of what the fall of Nazism meant for Germany. Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself is a magnificent explanation of one of the least known episodes in twentieth-century European history and a window into the psyche of a people who went from the top of the world to the bottom of the abyss in just a few years.