Ursula Tillmann, Ms.
2013
Undressing Shadows is the story about two women during postwar Germany. A war lost, a country divided while shadows of the past linger over cities in rubble. Hunger is paired with self-pity. When an additional twelve million Germans from Pomerania and East Prussia arrive in the Rhineland and Bavaria, among them the Marlow Family, the burden gets unbearable. Displaced Germans are cursed and despised by their own nation in the est. In addition, secrets of the past lead to speechlessness within families until today. Nearly fifty years later Christina Eicken goes on a quest with Lotte Marlow to undress those shadows. They stumble upon revealing facts hidden for years.
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