Final Berlin

April 1945, the last days of the Reich capital Berlin: As bombs fall, the last military forces defend Nazi rule. In the columns of refugees and among the disintegrating German army units, the Security Service and Gestapo are still hunting for Jews, dissidents, and deserters. The distrust among people is immense: anyone could be a traitor. Amidst the chaos, young soldier Joachim Lassehn desperately searches for a hiding place. Friedrich Wiegand, a trade unionist tortured in a concentration camp, attempts to hasten the end of the war through acts of sabotage. Doctor Walter Böttcher helps those in hiding to survive underground. And Oskar Klose's pub serves as the conspiratorial meeting point for a small resistance group that the SS is tracking. In his major novel "Finale Berlin," one of the first bestsellers of the post-war period, Heinz Rein follows the gripping fate of a small resistance group and allows the reader to experience the atmosphere in the crumbling Nazi empire.