again.
1941
Publication of Damals bei uns daheim [ Our Home in Days Gone by ].
1943
January: suffers severe depression, admitted to the Kuranstalt Westend, a clinic in Berlin. Publication of Heute bei uns zu Haus [ Our Home Today ]. Undertakes three tours abroad on behalf of the Reich Labour Service (RAD).
November: Rowohlt Verlag is closed down for good. Fallada is readmitted to the Kuranstalt Westend.
1944
Meets Ulla Losch. 5 July: divorced from Anna Ditzen.
28 August: during an argument with Anna Ditzen, Fallada fires a shot from his pistol. He is committed to the Neustrelitz-Strelitz psychiatric prison, where the novel Der Trinker [ The Drinker ], a number of short stories and the memoir of the Nazi period are written.
13 December: he is released.
1945
1 February: marriage to Ulla Losch. Following the entry of the Red Army into Feldberg, he is appointed mayor of the town. August: suffers another nervous breakdown and is admitted to a hospital in Neustrelitz for treatment of his morphine addiction. Later moves to Berlin and meets Johannes R. Becher. Contributes to the Tägliche Rundschau .
1946
Further stays in various clinics and hospitals. The last novels Der Alpdruck [ The Nightmare ] and Jeder stirbt für sich allein [ Alone in Berlin ] are written.
1947
5 February: Hans Fallada dies in Berlin.
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