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Set in 1945 during the red army invasion of berlin. A woman in berlin is an intimate account of that catastrophe, what became of one woman, her neighbors, the people on her block. A woman in berlin was originally published in 1954 in translation in the united states, and the following year in britain. Meet loads of available single women in berlin with mingle2 s berlin dating services. The unnamed narrator is a woman who recounts her life through eight weeks in berlin at the end of the war. The anonymous author of a woman in berlin was a young woman at the time of the fall of berlin.
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