Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel: Growing Up Under the Third Reich

"Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel - Growing Up Under the Third Reich," is a memoir of a very young girl who grew up in Berlin, Germany. Born in 1935, she survived the allied bombing of Berlin, the Russian onslaught through East Prussia, the terrible chaotic days of the horrific final battle for Berlin, and the starvation which ensued thereafter. The book also deals with the indoctrination of a young child in Hitler's Reich and Communist East Germany. She later embraced freedom in West Berlin and studied at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.