Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

Author: Jähner, HaraldBrand: WH AllenBinding: HardcoverRelease Date: 17-06-2021Details: 'Exemplary [and] important... This is the kind of book few writers possess the clarity of vision to write' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES'Magnificent... There are great lessons in the nature of humanity to be learnt here' TELEGRAPH'Magisterial, fascinating, humane' PHILIPPE SANDS'An extraordinary book... Breathtaking' JACK FAIRWEATHER'Essential reading. Anyone with even the slightest interest in history and the human condition should read this book' JULIA BOYDGermany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos?In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist and member of the resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove and records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation and industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans H