Why did Helmuth’s father shoot himself?
Helmuth’s father was a prominent physician and had been a Nazi and a supporter of Adolf Hitler. Germans, who were seen as impure or abnormal, were ‘undesirables’ and had no right to exist under the Euthanasia Programme. Helmuth’s father along with other physicians and officials had condemned to death many Germans who were considered as mentally and physically unfit. They knew that the Allies would take revenge. So he shot himself in his office.
