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Name: A Woman in Berlin
Full title: A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Author: Marta Hillers
Year: 1953
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Popularity: 3.5
Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Memoirs, War/Military

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For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. The anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.
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