Promise me you'll shoot yourself - Florian Huber

The extraordinary German bestseller on the final days of the Third Reich
A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019

One of the last untold stories of the Third Reich is that of the
extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi
leadership, but by thousands of ordinary Germans, in the war's closing
period. Some of these were provoked by straightforward terror in the
face of advancing Soviet troops or by personal guilt, but many could not
be explained in such relatively straightforward terms.

Florian
Huber's remarkable book, a bestseller in Germany, confronts this
terrible phenomenon. Other countries have suffered defeat, but not
responded in the same way. What drove whole families, who in many cases
had already withstood years of deprivation, aerial bombing and deaths in
battle, to do this?

In a brilliantly written, thoughtful and
original work, Huber sees the entire project of the Third Reich as a
sequence of almost overwhelming emotions and scenes for many Germans. He
describes some of the key events which shaped the period from the First
World War to the end of the Second, showing how the sheer intensity,
allure and ferocity of Hitler's regime swept along millions. Its sudden
end was, for many of them, simply impossible to absorb.