Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl's Journey to Freedom

In her memoir Walled-In, J. Elke Ertle recounts growing up in West Berlin, Germany, during the aftermath of World War II, a time when the city is divided into American, British, French, and Soviet occupation zones. Following the war, forty percent of all structures in the city are destroyed, scarcely a building is still standing in the city center, and the population has been reduced to roughly one-half of its prewar level. Daily, thousands of refugees, expelled from the former German terri...