Florian Huber - Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself - The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945

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p. 9 Historical postcard, Pommerscher Buchversand.

p. 16 Historical postcard, Verlag E. Rubin & Co., Lübeck.

p. 48 Photograph by Karl Trettin, reproduced by kind permission of Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Alt Rehse.

p. 60 Historical postcard, Verlag Robert Matz, Demmin.

p. 68 Photocopy, Demminer Regionalmuseum, photographed by the author.

p. 111 Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.

p. 112 Records of the Office of War Information—NARA, National Archives and Records Administration.

p. 114 © Lee Miller Archives, England 2014. All rights reserved.

p. 245 © Lee Miller Archives, England 2014. All rights reserved.

DR FLORIAN HUBER is the author of several works of history, including a recent study of the dramas of German family life in the postwar period. He has also produced award-winning documentaries on contemporary subjects, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the mysterious end of the poet Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the 1936 Olympic Games.

IMOGEN TAYLOR is a literary translator based in Berlin. Her translations include Fear and Twins by Dirk Kurbjuweit, Sascha Arango’s The Truth and Other Lies and Melanie Raabe’s The Trap and The Stranger .

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Originally published in Germany under the title Kind, versprich mir, dass du dich erschießt by Berlin Verlag, Piper Verlag GmbH, Berlin, 2015

First published in English by The Text Publishing Company, 2019

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