{"product_id":"promise-me-youll-shoot-yourself-the-downfall-of-ordinary-germans-1945-9780241399248","title":"Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans  1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe German bestseller on the final days of Nazi Germany 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 wars 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 Hubers 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 Hitlers regime swept along millions. Its sudden end was  for many of them  simply impossible to absorb.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67600089219125,"sku":"ByrdShop_0241399246","price":58.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780241399248.jpg?v=1790965207","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/promise-me-youll-shoot-yourself-the-downfall-of-ordinary-germans-1945-9780241399248","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}