Suicide in Nazi Germany / Christian Goeschel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goeschel, Christian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide--Germany--History.

Suicide.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-160891-2

0-19-960611-0

9786612053238

1-282-05323-X

0-19-156756-6

OCLC:

631205738