Berlin is described in the novel The Wallenberg Dossier.
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population of 3.7 million inhabitants. It is the European Union’s most populous city, according to population within city limits.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party came to power in 1933 and from that year to 1939 Berlin’s Jewish community decreased from 160,000 (about one-third of all Jews living in the country) to about 80,000 due to emigration. After Kristallnacht in 1938, thousands of the city’s Jews were imprisoned in the nearby Sachsenhausen concentration camp. During World War II, large parts of Berlin were destroyed during 1943–45 Allied air raids and the 1945 Battle of Berlin. The Allies dropped 67,607 tons of bombs on the city, destroying 6,427 acres of the built-up area. Around 125,000 civilians were killed. The city was divided and the sectors of the Western Allies (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) formed West Berlin, while the Soviet sector formed East Berlin.