![]() ![]() The wife of Josef Jakobs, and their three children, were in Berlin at the end of the war. While much has been written about the demise of Berlin at the end of the war, I had yet to come across a first-hand woman’s account of that time. The title and synopsis of the book intrigued me. ![]() I came across the title of this book while searching for something else online. While the author wished to remain anonymous, many now believe that she was Marta Hillers, a German journalist who passed away in 2001. Writing with courage and intellectual honesty, the author provides an eye-opening personal account of a city pillaged and ravaged by the Russian Army. Refugees from the East, who had thought Berlin a “safe” place, were also caught up in the maelstrom. Rape, looting, starvation, forced labour was the lot of the Germans who had hunkered down in Berlin that spring. The Russians arrived a few days later and the author writes in detail about the horror that unfolded. ![]() In April 1945, the author, a female journalist living in Berlin, began to keep a daily diary as her city collapsed around her. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City Anonymous Metropolitan Books, 2005. ![]()
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