SUICIDES IN GERMANY
52 DEATHS DAILY "PROOF OF DISTRESS" ' LONDON, April 2-h Nineteen thousand Germans cVory year prefer to die by their own hands rather than live amid the glories ol Hitler's third Reich, states a special correspondent of the Daily Herald. This fact is revealed Toy official statistics just published. During the first five weeks of this year, they show, the number of suicides in 57 of the biggest German towns reached the enormous total of 581:
Every day, taking the country as a ivho:<r,V d2 Hermans make away with themselves, and the greater part ui tiiemarc between li> and 2."> years ol 1. iid't comment on tho figures, pe.haps, comes fiom the pon of— Miner! "Proof of Germany's distress," he writes, "is the number of suicides in our unhappy country." ' But that was written before he came to power. '' Substitute a strong and dignified regime for the nervUtiitc of. the Republic," he went en, ';■.,». Germans will want to live.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 12
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