Eight Days in May- The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by Volker Ullrich

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(G)ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich's account, the murderous behavior of the Reich's last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological. —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler- Ascent and Hitler- Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3-00 p. m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer's suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it- the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society's descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide.

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    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Product dimensions- 5.4" W x 8.1" H x 0.9" D
    • Genre- History
    • Publisher- Liveright Publishing Corporation, Publication date- 02-07-2023
    • Page count- 336
    • ISBN- 9781324092889
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Hitler’s aftermath

The story of Hitler’s suicide and the final days leading to Germany’s surrender. Even after the surrender many German officials and the general citizenry refused to admit any complicity in the holocaust or the chaos their country caused in the world. A situation the world can never permit again.

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