![]() ![]() The world still felt little sympathy for any pain inflicted on a German people who had brought the world so much suffering.īerlin women who had lived through the humiliation had no desire to recall it. However, Berliners had responded with either hostility or silence. Hillers had expected the book to be welcomed by a people who wanted the world to know that they, too, had been the victims of war. ![]() Tens of thousands of others had fallen victim elsewhere in the Soviet zone. According to estimates extracted from hospital records, between 90,000 and 130,000 Berlin women had been raped during the last days of the war and the first days of Soviet occupation. Published for the first time in German in 1959, the book had brought to life one of the worst military atrocities ever. ![]() It had been a time when her life-like that of tens of thousands of other Berlin women and girls-had become a nightmare of fear, hunger, and rape. Marta Hillers’s only consolation was that she had refused to put her name on the extraordinary manuscript in which she had so meticulously recounted the Soviet conquest of Berlin during the cold spring of 1945. ![]()
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