Great story, thanks for posting it.
Glad to see that the mayor and his wife offed themselves - that way no one else has any guilt for their deaths, especially this particular guy.
Most Nazi suicides after V-E Day were among the well to do & influential. They were fully aware of what their Third Reich had done to the Jews & other “subhumans” & they expected the Allies to reply in kind, outside of the rule of law, as was already happening where the Red Army had conquered.
Germans living near death camps claimed they had no idea what was going on despite the unmistakable stench of the crematoria. The nearest thing to Allied poetic justice was forcing Germans to handle & bury the thousands of murdered corpses. Some were driven to suicide after that experience as well.
My only concern regarding them offing themselves is what happened to the baby?