I think i've seen this thread before, and inb4 faggots screaming muh stormniggers, but a genuine question:
Why did so many people commit suicide at the end of the third Reich? Was it because their dream was utterly torn down and crushed? Has suicide occured in such a scale before?
because they knew they were absolutely fucked post-war due to all the warcrimes and the holcoaust.
>>3338875
Most German people didn't know about the Holocaust.
Because the Red Army gives no quarter
But when you actually look at it all the Nazi's that were imprisoned they only served like 5-10 years then got released despite having 20 years to life sentences
>>3338887
the majority of citizens may not have participated, but they certainly fucking knew with mass round-ups of undesirables and slave labor being loaned to factories.
>>3338887
>>3338906
Most of those who offed themselves were government officials, militarymen, and anyone who worked in an official capacity or was a Nazi Party Member.
For the average German that committed suicide, it was probably total belief in the ideology that to see it getting smashed before them was too much.
>>3338906
There's a difference between forced labor and extermination you brainlet.
>>3338898
Both sides needed to rebuild 'their' Germany for the Cold War. Thus the need to release Germans early.
>>3338872
They committed suicide because they knew that Germany would have a Rothschild bank installed with the fall of national socialism in Germany. So they did what they had to do in order to escape the Rothschildized world and that was to kill themselves.