A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Anonymous Anonymous
A New York Times Book Review Editors' 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 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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an uncensored narration of the second world war in Berlin, Germany during the Russian conquering and Nazi ruling. devastating words depicting the horror of daily life for this anonymous woman and her fellow tenants, clinging to life, survival by stealing and being silent
in a diary style the narrator describes the war on women unfolding in 1940s Berlin (and all of Germany for that matter), the violence and sexual violence by the rogue soldiers, pig like men, that piss and shit where ever they please, tainting every inch of the city
it is a tragic tale of a survivor, whose words hold so much power there is no way i could sum it up in a review. this is a must read, especially for all women today in the current political climate because often it feels like the wind could blow the wrong direction and we may find ourselves in a similar circumstance…
0A very amazing insight into what life was like for women trying to survive with Russian soliders during the wwii occupation.
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