Mothers drowned their own children. The end of the war was marked by mass suicide.

The last weeks of World War II in Germany were marked by a wave of suicides. Germans, aware of their homeland's loss in the conflict, committed suicide in fear of revenge from the Allied armies, especially the Soviet Red Army, about whose rampages in the conquered territories terrifying rumors were spreading. Hundreds of people took their own lives in the city of Demmin - the mass suicide there in early May 1945 became the largest mass suicide i…