Post-WWII Berlin memoirs?

Question

I'm doing a project on postwar Berlin -- specifically, the radical economic changes and the interesting things that got turned into currency (alcohol, cigarettes, etc), and I'm on the hunt for memoirs, journals, or any other good primary source you might know. As my research has always been on the war itself, I'm only coming up with works written by soldiers. This time I'm hoping to branch out a little and look especially at the civilian population. I'd like to include some things from returning soldiers, of course, but most of the memoirs I find only deal with their experiences in the war and very little, if anything, about what came after.

So that's where you can help. Know of any interesting sources? Economic analyses of the subject would also be helpful, but only if they're written in layman's terms. I'm a history major, not an economics/business major, and math in any guise usually makes me cringe.

Answer 1

The Klemperer Diaries do cover the immediate post war years, but to the best of my knowledge the only parts published in English cover the period 1932-45. The post-war diaries may be available in German and there may be an English synopsis, though I am not sure Klemperer was even in Berlin in the immediate post-war period and if he was it was probably East Berlin.
You may wish to contact the US publisher, Random House, or the German publisher Aufbau-Verlag GmbH in Berlin. Good luck with it, sounds an interesting project.

Answer 2

http://www6.dw-world.de/en/2110.php