After WWII, Almost 1,000 Germans In This Small Town Killed Themselves In 72 Hours

Textbooks in the U.S. typically focus on the events of World War II from the American perspective for obvious reasons. We are often flooded with information about the devastation that occurred during the battle of Normandy, for example, but very few of us have ever heard about the mass suicides that occurred in many towns and villages across Germany directly after the war ended.One mass suicide occurred in the German town of Demmin, where an estimated 900 civilians managed to take their own lives over a 72-hour period out of fear of what Soviet forces would do to them. With...

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