A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
By (author): "Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Philip Boehm, Anonymous"
Publish Date:
1953
ISBN0312426119
ISBN139780312426118
AsinA Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
Original titleEine Frau in Berlin: Tagebuch-Aufzeichnungen vom 20. April bis 22. Juni 1945
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFor 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.
