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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
This book has been translated by Almutawassit Publishers
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 by all, regardless of age or infirmity.
The memoir describes a woman journalist’s personal experiences during the occupation of Berlin by the Soviets at the end of World War II.
She describes being gang-raped by Russian soldiers and deciding to seek protection by forming a relationship with a Soviet officer; other women made similar decisions. The author described it as “sleeping for food.”
Conditions in the city were cruel, as women had no other protection against assaults by soldiers.
Janet Halley noted Hillers’ work challenged thinking about rape, as she sometimes suggested it was not the worst thing in the context of the war’s destruction of her entire world.
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
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