![]() Having travelled in the USSR in the 1930s she had picked up a smattering of Russian and was subsequently to put it too good use.Īs the city is being bombarded, thousands of civilians take refuge and survive in fetid basements or bomb-shelters. After her death in 2001 her identity was revealed as Marta Hillers who had been a journalist and worked in publishing. ![]() When the book was first published such was the hostility, anger and disgust that the author decided it was never to be published again in her lifetime. When Soviet troops invaded Germany and overthrew Hitler in 1945, Germans, particularly those in Berlin, knew there would be a reckoning for the death, suffering and pillage their army had inflicted on Russia and the people of the east.Įxultant in victory, and usually intoxicated, many Red Army soldiers engaged in mass rape as they made their way through Berlin.Ī Woman In Berlin is a contemporaneous account in diary form of the last few weeks of war (20th April to 22nd June, 1945) written with a pencil stub, often by candlelight, by a 32-year-old woman who wished to remain anonymous. ![]()
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