World History

I think Germans in general and German women in particular were very reluctant to discuss this, for all the reasons people don't talk about rape, plus the fact that Germans and Germany were held in such (justifiable) disregard during the first decades after the war.

I just finished reading "Fire and Fury"--not the book about Trump, but by Randall Hansen about the Allied bombing of Germany from 1942 to 1945. He describes how Germans who lived through the worst of the bombings were reluctant to talk about their own suffering, in light of the Holocaust and the sense of communal guilt. He wrote his book more than sixty years after the end of the war, and people were only now beginning to share their experiences.

And was the guide German?

I'm curious to know.