Mass suicide in Demmin: An estimated 700–2,500 suicides take place

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1 мая 1945 г.

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53.91° N, 13.05° E

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Mass suicide in Demmin: An estimated 700–2,500 suicides take place, after 80% of the town has been destroyed by the Soviets during the past three days.

Место: coordinates of the event it links, Demmin mass suicide.

Mass suicide in Demmin: An estimated 700–2,500 suicides take place, after 80% of the town has been destroyed by the Soviets during the past three days

1945 mass suicide in Germany following the Red Army invasion

On 1 May 1945, hundreds of people killed themselves in the town of Demmin, in the Province of Pomerania, Germany. Although death toll estimates vary, it is acknowledged to be the largest mass suicide ever recorded in Germany. The suicide was part of a mass suicide wave amongst the population of Nazi Germany.

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