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Book Review of A Woman In Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City

A Woman In Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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This is not the usual WWII story. The author is straight forward and writes in a way that lefts you know of the suffering she and others endured without making it sappy or overly graphic. This isn't a plea for sympathy for the German people, just a narrative of what happened to one Berliner. I had always known that when the Russian army occupied Berlin that they were hard on the women there. I had no idea it was this bad.