Harald Jähner’s Aftermath is a gripping description of what life was like in Germany between 1945 and 1955.
The journalist Marta Hillers wrote in her diary in April 1945
"Deep down we women are experiencing a kind of collective disappointment. The Nazi world - ruled by men, glorifying the strong man - is beginning to crumble, and with it the ‘Man’.
"In earlier wars men could claim that the honour of killing and being killed for the fatherland was theirs and theirs alone.
"Today we women, too, have a share. That has transformed us, emboldened us.
"Among the many defeats at the end of this war is the defeat of the male sex."
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