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Diary of a Nightmare: Berlin 1942-1945

Ursula von Kardorff, a journalist at the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a respectable German newspaper, chronicles her life in Berlin and travels in Germany during the war and immediately after the war. Several of her friends were involved in the 20 July plot to kill Hitler.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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