Aftermath
Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
Harald Jähner, 2022 Bvtn Lib 943.087 JAH
Translation of 2019 Wolfszeit ( Wolf Time )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_J%C3%A4hner
Vignettes, mostly about Berlin and "west" Germany before unification.
Building a free society on top of a destroyed dictatorship and an authoritarian culture. Mostly about "West" Germany ( British French US occupation zones ) and Berlin. Postwar Germans burying the 12 year Reich under attributions to dead leaders, exhumed by boomer journalist Jähner
Amusing frontispiece image from Cabinet magazine original? magazine article
Reference to Sinti Romani people, thousands killed at Auschwitz-Birekenau "gypsy camp", 200K to (1500K out of 2000K?)
I read this book in snippets over months. An older engineer colleague married a German woman from this time. perhaps this resembled her story.