Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself

‘Florian Huber's book is a valuable contribution to understanding how Germany was responsible for some of the most terrible events of the last century.’ * Age * ‘[A] a remarkable book—grim and fascinating.’ * The Times * ‘Until Huber’s work, the deaths were underestimated, confined to official documents and several diaries published in the 1950s and 1960s. It makes Promise Me a significant work.’ * Adelaide Advertiser * ‘Huber acquaints us with a chapter of German history largely unknown until now, and likely repressed.’ -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ‘Gut-wrenching to read and one of the last previously untold and unacknowledged chapters in German history.’ * North and South * ‘A grimly compelling insight into the psychology of fanaticism.’ * Economist * 'In this exploration of the relatively undocumented suicide epidemic that swept across Germany at the end of the Second World War, Florian Huber gives a harrowing insight into the psyche of everyday German citizens, from the time of Hitler’s meteoric rise to power to the destructive downfall of Nazi Germany.' * Scotsman * ‘All eyes will be opened…by the sheer facts on offer in Florian Huber’s Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself…Huber follows a cast of real, all-too-human characters as they head into darkness. He builds a terrifying picture of how a modern, civilised culture embraced a lunatic death-cult…Huber’s terrible evidence is priceless, and belongs on every bookshelf.’ * Spectator * ‘Vivid and disturbing…Huber portrays his subjects with empathy and offers key insights into the German mindset before, during, and after WWII.’ * Publishers Weekly *