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Stina (stinalyn) | 665 comments Mod
I'm finding Bridget Jones's Diary more than a little tedious, so maybe I will go with The Diaries of Hannah Cullwick, Victorian Maidservant or The Sandmann's Journal: Vol. 1. Both of those are actual journals, not fiction, but I would certainly count fictional works for this prompt.


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Mary Arkless | 153 comments "A Woman in Berlin" by an anonymous woman, but quite likely to have been Marta Hillers. The author was 34 years old living in Berlin when the Soviets arrived at the end of WWII. She started a journal a few days before, and continued it into the summer. It was first published in translation in the US in 1954. Five years later, it was published in German in Switzerland, and caused a furore in Germany. Nobody was prepared to face the truth of how many German women were raped by the Soviets in Berlin, how the men who were present turned away in order to save their own lives, how many women sought out one Soviet as a partner to survive and try to prevent being raped and/or gang raped by other Soviet soldiers. The author then decided to not allow the book to be reprinted while she was alive, although the country was ready to examine this topic by the 1970s. She died in 2001, so a new German version was published in 2003 and was accepted. Indeed, it was even turned into a film.


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