Letters from Berlin

Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II. She and her little brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. The teenage Margarete was preoccupied with school, friends, boys, and sports but she was also aware of a growing air of secrecy and fear among her elders and she struggled to make sense of it all. She lost her brother to the army, treated wounded boy soldiers for the German Red Cross, and ran scared through the streets as Allied bombs decimated her city. Just when she thought the worse was over and she and her mother were on a train to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russia. Margarete survived the war but the wartime tragedies she experienced would haunt her for the rest of her life.