Death in the Rubble: The Female Killer Who Stalked Cold War Berlin (German and European Studies) - Softcover

Bodek, Richard

 
9781487552916: Death in the Rubble: The Female Killer Who Stalked Cold War Berlin (German and European Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1487552912 ISBN 13: 9781487552916
Verlag: MNG University Presses, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

In 1949, the year of the Berlin airlift and the founding of the two post-war German states, Elisabeth Kusian (nurse, black marketeer, morphine and methamphetamine addict, and pathological liar) garroted and dismembered two people in a mini crime spree. Her actions both fascinated and terrified the public – how could this woman, a nurse, commit such a violent act?

West Berlin detectives attempted to run an efficient investigation under new democratic rules. Their East Berlin counterparts, newly structured along Soviet lines, employed their restricted resources to solve the case and prove the advantages of their socialist system. Both tried to use the investigation to demonstrate their distance from the Third Reich and build a brighter future.

Based on the true story of Elisabeth Kusian, Death in the Rubble explores shifting identities, evolving gender expectations, post-fascist politics and norms, and the violence lurking beneath a city struggling to redefine itself.

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Richard Bodek is a professor of history at the College of Charleston.

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Verlag
MNG University Presses
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1487552912
ISBN 13 
9781487552916
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Anzahl der Seiten
296
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