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David McK (3705 KP) rated A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3) in Books

Sep 7, 2025  
A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3)
A Death in Berlin (CI Schenke #3)
Simon Scarrow | 2025
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Third entry in Simon Scarrow's Criminal Inspector Schenke series, all of which have an unusual setting of being in wartime (WW2) Berlin, with their protagonist a Criminal Investigator member of the German police force (*not* SS).

In this one, it's largely about gang warfare, with CI Schenke and his team (some of whom he has to be very careful around) pulled into the investigation of a murder in Berlin (hence the tile) as Hitler prepares to invade Poland, and finding this murder may be connected to another case they are investigating around forged food coupons.

As before, it's shocking that some of the stuff you read about here - specifically, the with-holding of those (non forged) coupons from the Jewish community - actually happened!
  
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BethZ (6 KP) rated The Orphan's Tale in Books

Dec 25, 2017  
The Orphan's Tale
The Orphan's Tale
Pam Jenoff | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
9
8.8 (6 Ratings)
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Absolutely Must Read
I found this story to be very touching. Noa is a 16 year girl who was impregnated by a Nazi Officer and then thrown out by her father and forced to give up her baby. She finds herself living at a train station and working there cleaning when she discovers a railcar filled with Jewish babies. She decides to take one and runs into the woods with him, where she comes across a traveling circus who agrees to take her in as one of their aerialists. She meets Astrid, a rival at first, but bound by the secrets they each keep, forge an unforgettable friendship.

It is a beautiful story of loss, love, friendship, and loyalty set in a time when life was dangerous and difficult.
  
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MrsR (11 KP) rated Broken Child in Books

Aug 16, 2018  
Broken Child
Broken Child
Marcia Cameron | 1995 | Biography
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Based on a true stort
Contains spoilers, click to show
This powerful tale takes readers on a harrowing, unforgettable journey into the nightmare of parental abuse and the darkness of mental illness. Written by a woman who endured horrendous abuse from her mother and became a split personality by the age of five, here is the story of her agonizing childhood, the conflicting personalties, and struggle back to sanity.

Marcia was a toddler when she first recalls the abuse. Her mother a devoted Hitler youth , who moved to America. Didnt love her daughter because she was half Jewish and looked so. This book is not for the weak of heart. You will be moved and emotional at how a mother can do this and the struggle Marcia faced to get to "normal" life.