New English editions were published in the United Kingdom and the United States in 2005, as well as in seven other languages. A controversy broke out when a literary editor revealed the author as Hillers. It met wide critical acclaim and was weeks on the bestseller list. She died in 2001.Ī new edition of her book was published posthumously in Germany in 2003, again anonymously. Having married and moved to Switzerland, Hillers left journalism and did not publish another major work. When it was published in Germany in 1959, the author was accused of "besmirching the honor of German women." Hillers refused to have another edition published in her lifetime. The book was first published in English in 1954 in the United States. The book details the author's being raped and choosing to take a Soviet officer as a protector during the Red Army occupation. It is the diary of a German woman from 20 April to 22 June 1945, during and after the Battle of Berlin. Marta Hillers (1911–2001) was a German journalist, and the author of the memoir, Eine Frau in Berlin ( A Woman in Berlin), published anonymously in 19 in German.
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