Post-war Germany, Berlin. The first months of the city's life after the country's defeat in World War II. Poor life in a destroyed city. The Germans are possessed by a complex set of feelings: national humiliation, shame and repentance for crimes committed, fear of punishment, a nightmarish feeling of being an object of universal hatred... And at the same time, love for their country that has gone astray, this “sick heart of Europe.” Fallada’s hero personally does not guilty of war crimes, but feels guilty for the weakness and lack of will of the entire nation. Listening to the reports of the Nuremberg Tribunal about the atrocities of the Nazis, he tells himself with a shudder that he did not know all this, in the depths of his soul understanding that even if he had known, he would have done nothing to prevent it. “A Nightmare in Berlin” is a bitter and honest eyewitness testimony about the most shameful and tragic pages in the history of the German people.