![]() ![]() He doesn’t write purple-tinged apocalyptic prose, as Rein does. Florian Huber, born 20 years after the war’s end, is a historian. ![]() Overlong, overwrought and overloaded with stilted debate, it is of interest now chiefly as valuable testimony from one who was there. Berlin Finale is a novel, first published in serial form shortly after the events it describes. Heinz Rein lived through the final fighting when Hitler, from his bunker, decreed that any German officer ordering a retreat was to be killed on the spot by his own men. Both are concerned with the last days of the Third Reich as seen, not from military headquarters, but from the wrecked streets and vile-smelling cellars where ordinary Germans waited for the end. These are two terrible books terrible because their subject matter is so harrowing.
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