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EAN : 9782809845105
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 264
Size : 140 x 225 mm
They Chose Death

Collection : Histoire
Release date : 09/11/2023
Rommel, Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, Hess…
Nazi leaders who decided to follow Hitler’s ending
30 April 1945, around 3.20pm. By killing himself with Eva Braun he just married, Adolf Hitler initiates a chain reaction through the chiefs of the Third Reich. Cyanide, hanging, firearms… Many of his collaborators follow this suicidal path – Goebbels first.
Yet some of Hitler’s closest collaborators, Goering and Himmler, did...
30 April 1945, around 3.20pm. By killing himself with Eva Braun he just married, Adolf Hitler initiates a chain reaction through the chiefs of the Third Reich. Cyanide, hanging, firearms… Many of his collaborators follow this suicidal path – Goebbels first.
Yet some of Hitler’s closest collaborators, Goering and Himmler, did not want to sacrifice themselves. Goering hoped he could deal with Americans and become future Germany new Foreign Minister; and Himmler figures he could manage the transition through Sweden. But Goering’s death sentence in Nuremberg and Himmler’s capture give them an unexpected ending.
44-45, at least 200 Nazi chiefs killed themselves. All had many reasons: avoiding their sentence from Allies determined to condemn them; denying their defeat and the National-socialist Government ending… Many Nazis never considered their acts as criminal, and preferred choosing, with suicide or escape, their own “final solution”.
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EAN : 9782809845105
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 264
Size : 140 x 225 mm
L'Archipel