His daughter Paulina suffered from mental illness and drug addiction. She died in 1930 at the age of 40 of a heroin overdose.
Hans shot himself to death on the day of his sister Paulina’s funeral; he was 39 years old.
Paulina and Hans had little contact with their young sister, “Trude” (Margarethe, 1893–1943). She married Richard Neumann, a man 17 years her elder. Neumann lost his fortune in the Great Depression. Burdened by the steep costs of hospitalizing Trude, who suffered from severe bouts of depressive illness that required repeated hospitalization, the Neumanns’ financial life was precarious. The Nazis sent Trude and Richard to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where they died. Her body was burned. Her mother, who died in 1907, was cremated, and her ashes were lost by accident.
Norman became deeply depressed over the fate of his family and his inability to help the Jewish people “languishing” in the European camps. Unable to endure his suffering any further, he jumped to his death from the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Washington, D.C., on 26 November 1946.
Now a whole people have to suffer and die in a nightmare, for a dream of a single man.
Doesnt sound like they drove themselves…
Trude and Richard were literally murdered.
Now a whole people have to suffer and die in a nightmare, for a dream of a single man.
Now that was a very weird thing for me to read.
While I agree that current Zionism has gone way too far, the whole reason that there was a movement and need to restart an Israeli state is because so many around the world for so long scapegoated Jews over nothing much but bullshit and propaganda. Rubbish like P.E.Z. would be a prime example.
So you can thank most of the needless woes on all different sides due to chronic antisemitism, essentially.
