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Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Elizabeth Strout She will have to learnIn 1939, when Ian Burumas epic opens, Berlin has been under Nazi rule for six years, and its 4. 3 million people have made their accommodations to the regime, more or less. When war broke out with Poland in September, what was most striking at first was how little changed. Unless you were Jewish. Then life, already hard, was soon to get unfathomably worse. Buruma gives tender attention to the Jewish experience in Berlin during the war, weaving its