The year is 1945. Berlin, once a gleaming symbol of Nazi power, lies in ruins. Months of relentless bombing campaigns by Allied forces have reduced vast swathes of the city to smoldering rubble. The onceproud German military, its delusional promises shattered by reality, crumbles in the face of the inevitable Soviet onslaught.
Amidst the deafening roar of artillery fire and the everpresent smoke, German women navigate a world turned upside down. Their husbands, fathers, and sons, sent off with promises of glory and a swift victory, are now either dead, missing, or returning as broken shells of the men they once knew. The societal structures that dictated their lives the staunchly patriarchal Nazi regime are disintegrating around them, leaving a vacuum of authority and a chilling uncertainty about the future, with their fate, in the hands of the red army...

00:00 What Happened To German Women?
01:04 After The Fall: Survival In A Ruined City
05:07 Cry Of Fear : The Horrible Fate Of German Women
10:08 Tragedy of War : Harrowing Accounts Of Red Army Victims
22:55 Rescue or More Suffering? : German Women in the Hands of the Western Allies