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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

by Anonymous, Philip Boehm, Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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A New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice 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 Berlintells 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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780312426118
ISBN10 0312426119
Series/Work OL4510981W View on OpenLibrary
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

1939-1945 1945 Atrocities Battle of Berlin Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945 Biography Crimes against Diaries German Personal narratives Germany Junge Frau Kriegsende Lebensbewältigung Militär Rape Tweede Wereldoorlog Umgang Vrouwen Weltkrieg (1939-1945)

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