A review by silvermadeleine
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich by Walter Kempowski

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

This is the final volume of Walter Kempowski's ten-part nonfiction series on the Third Reich. It's a collage of voices, mainly German but also including Allied soldiers, Eastern European forced labourers, etc. This volume focuses just on the days between Hitler's birthday and Germany's surrender. I loved being able to read first-hand accounts from so many different people about the same set of events. Depressing, nonetheless.