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Marta Hillers

1911 - 2001

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Marta Hillers (May 26, 1911 – June 16, 2001) was a German journalist, and the author of the memoir Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin), published anonymously in 1959 and 2003 in German. It is the diary of a German woman from 20 April to 22 June 1945, during and after the Battle of Berlin. The book details the author's rape, in the context of mass rape by the occupying forces, and how she and many other German women chose to take a Soviet officer as a protector. The book was first published in English in 1954 in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marta Hillers is the 45th most popular journalist (up from 47th in 2019), the 3,188th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,080th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Marta Hillers ranks 45 out of 196Before her are Aenne Burda, Marcelo H. del Pilar, James Foley, Letizia Battaglia, Sue Gardner, and Yuri Bezmenov. After her are Vladimir Posner, James Nachtwey, Ara Güler, William Wilson, Thomas Nast, and Mohamed Hassanein Heikal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Marta Hillers ranks 150Before her are William T. Stearn, Tilly Fleischer, George Borg Olivier, Leah Goldberg, Otakar Vávra, and Mirzo Tursunzoda. After her are John C. Woods, Abderrahmane Farès, Clara Rockmore, E. F. Schumacher, Ljubiša Broćić, and Peter van Eyck. Among people deceased in 2001, Marta Hillers ranks 126Before her are Barend Biesheuvel, Beatrice Straight, Josef Klaus, Edwin H. Colbert, Jason Miller, and Betty Everett. After her are Jelle Zijlstra, Ziad Jarrah, Burt Kennedy, Bill Roberts, Nigel Hawthorne, and William P. Rogers.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marta Hillers ranks 3,190 out of 7,253Before her are Princess Marie of Baden (1834), William VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1651), Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801), Anita Berber (1899), Hans Litten (1903), and Leonor Michaelis (1875). After her are Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819), Princess Isabella of Bavaria (1863), Princess Anna of Saxony (1836), Heinrich Ehrler (1917), A. R. Penck (1939), and Christiane Kubrick (1932).

Among JOURNALISTS In Germany

Among journalists born in Germany, Marta Hillers ranks 4Before her are Gerda Taro (1910), Beate Klarsfeld (1939), and Aenne Burda (1909). After her are Thomas Nast (1840), Bill Brandt (1904), Norbert Haug (1952), Bogna Koreng (1965), Anja Niedringhaus (1965), Claas Relotius (1985), and Yury Dud (1986).