Resource Tag: WAR

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The author discusses suicides which occurred in Germany at the end of World War II. He states the motivations of individuals dying by suicide were various & multi-faceted but what they had in common was a general feeling of insecurity & the lack of a future perspective. This article focuses on contemporary representations of suicide […]

Contrary to Durkheim’s theory of suicide during wartime, the Netherlands had high suicide rates in 1940 & 1945. To explain these findings, the authors propose the social integration theory, according to which, people who expect to be excluded from society are more likely to die by suicide. This idea is examined using individual-level data on […]

This article re-examines Jewish responses towards Nazi racism by studying suicides among German Jews. The author’s purpose is two-fold: first, asking what motivated these suicides & secondly, how far, if at all, Jewish suicides can be considered a form of resistance towards Nazism & to what extent they were acts of despair & hopelessness. (129 […]

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In France from 1850 to 1913, during periods of war the suicide rates were lower than during periods of peace, while the military participation rate was positively associated with the suicide rate.

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The author discusses the occurrence of suicide terrorist attacks & military missions that were almost certain to result in death in modern & historical times. He includes examples from both World Wars & the Middle East.

Data on suicides in Scotland during 1931-1952 & population estimates for each of these years were obtained from the General Register Office for Scotland. The all-age suicide rate among men & women declined during the period. However, when this long-term decline is taken into account, the likelihood of suicide during the Second World War was […]

This paper analyses one of the non-Nuremberg war crimes trials in Germany, specifically that which arose from the deaths of more than 400 people in the Hadamar Sanitorium. These individuals were put to death, allegedly suffering from incurable tuberculosis, under the Euthanasia Order passed in 1940 in Germany. The 7 defendants claimed a plea of […]

For a related article which covers the background to COPIND, please see SIEC #2005-0025

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For the original article by T Pytell, please see SIEC #2004-0808

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Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”

Published in “The Suicidal Process: Challenges for Treatment and Prevention”