A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
A Diary
Ranked #1 in Berlin, Ranked #16 in Diaries — see more rankings.
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... more
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... more
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Antony Beevor This book, A Woman in Berlin, is one of the great diaries of the whole war. (Source)
Keith Lowe It’s by a German housewife in Berlin who was repeatedly raped when the Russians arrive in 1945. It’s heart-rending but, miraculously, not depressing. (Source)
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City is ranked in the following categories:
- #17 in German History
- #71 in World War II
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