Challenge yourself & piece together this stunning image of a horse galloping across a field in the afternoon sun.
Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble & more than half of the population are where they do not belong or do not want to be. How can a functioning society ever emerge from this chaos? In bombed-out Berlin, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich, journalist & member of the Nazi resistance, warms herself by a makeshift stove & records in her diary how a frenzy of expectation & industriousness grips the city. The Americans send Hans Habe, an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist & US army soldier, to the frontline of psychological warfare
- tasked with establishing a newspaper empire capable of remoulding the minds of the Germans. The philosopher Hannah Arendt returns to the country she fled to find a population gripped by a manic loquaciousness, but faces a deafening wall of silence at the mention of the Holocaust. Aftermath is a nuanced panorama of a nation undergoing monumental change. 1945 to 1955 was a raw, wild decade poised between two eras that proved deci...