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The Deputy Mayor of Leipzig and his wife and daughter, who committed suicide in the Neues Rathaus as U.S. troops were entering the city on 20 April 1945. During the final weeks of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe, many civilians, government officials, and military personnel throughout Germany and German-occupied Europe committed suicide.
Heinrich Himmler's corpse after his suicide by cyanide poisoning in Allied custody, May 1945. This is a list of suicides in Nazi Germany. Many prominent Nazis, Nazi followers, and members of the armed forces died by suicide during the last days of World War II. Others killed themselves after being captured.
Magda Goebbels (1945), German wife of Joseph Goebbels, assisted suicide by gunshot or cyanide poisoning. [492] [493] Gongsun Zan (199 AD), Chinese general and warlord, setting himself and his family on fire [494] David Goodall (2018), English-born Australian botanist and ecologist, physician-assisted suicide [495]
On the night of 10–11 March 1946, Karl Haushofer and his wife committed suicide in a secluded hollow on their Hartschimmelhof estate at Pähl/Ammersee. Both drank arsenic and his wife then hanged herself from a tree branch. [12] [13] Haushofer left a detailed map to help his son, Heinz, find the bodies.
Beer plays a significant role in the German culture, and for many years, German beer was brewed in strict adherence to the Reinheitsgebot, a regulation that permitted only water, hops, yeast, and malt as beer ingredients. This law also stipulated that beers not exclusively using barley-malts, such as wheat beer, must be top-fermented. [1]
Heinz Heydrich was an Obersturmführer (lieutenant), journalist, and publisher of the soldiers' newspaper, Die Panzerfaust.He was at first a fervent admirer of Hitler. Before his brother Reinhard's State funeral in Berlin in June 1942, Heydrich was given a large packet containing his brother's files, released from his strongbox at Gestapo Headquarters, 8 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, Berli
Kevin Smith and wife Jennifer Schwalbach Smith are 25 years strong.. The couple celebrated their milestone anniversary in April of this year. Asked about any big rules that keep their marriage ...
Adolph Hermann Joseph Kuhrs was born in Barmen in Rhenish Prussia on February 4, 1847, the son of Joseph Kuhrs (circa 1820–1862) and Helena Heim (circa 1820–1862). He was apprenticed at age 13 to the book and stationery store of Andrea and Company in nearby Ruhrort from November 1860 until June 1862.