A Woman in Berlin — Germany
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 last weeks under bombardment.
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, later identified as journalist Marta Hillers, died in 2001. The diary was republished in 2003 after her death and became an international bestseller.