3 real historical locations · Germany
Based on an anonymous diary, this film portrays the mass rape of German women by Soviet soldiers during the fall of Berlin in April 1945. A devastating account of what happened to civilian women caught in the final battles of the war in Europe.
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An anonymous German woman's diary of Berlin's fall in April-May 1945 — the mass rape of German women by Soviet troops, and the brutal reality of a city's las...
It is estimated that between 95,000 and 130,000 women were raped by Soviet troops in Berlin in April-May 1945. The anonymous diary was published in German in 1954 and caused scandal for its frank account. The author, ...
View location →A German woman and her neighbours shelter in a cellar as Soviet forces take Berlin. She writes candidly about the mass rape of German women and the collapse ...
The anonymous diary, published in 1954, described the systematic rape of an estimated 100,000 Berlin women by Soviet troops in April–May 1945. The author's identity (Marta Hillers) was revealed after her death.
View location →The fall of the Reichstag on 2 May 1945 marks the symbolic end of the Third Reich. For Berlin's surviving civilians, the Soviet victory brings neither libera...
The battle for Berlin (16 April – 2 May 1945) cost 81,000 Soviet dead and killed an estimated 22,000 Berlin civilians. The Red Flag raised over the Reichstag became the war's most iconic Soviet image.
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