Reading group: Hans Fallada's Berlin - in pictures

In 1942, when this picture was taken, the Nazi hegemony appeared complete. Here Hitler makes a speech in Berlin's Sport Palace Photograph: Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images

'Hitler has no wife, / The butcher has no sow. / The baker has no dough! / That is the Third Reich. / Hitler's might before right will bring us Germans no peace! Down with Hitler's crew'
A postcard left by the Hampels and later recovered from their police file. In the novel, Fallada describes Otto Quangel painstakingly scratching the letters in signwriter's style. 'Each card takes a long time.'
Photograph: The Guardian

'Free press! Readers, take care of circulation. Why fight and die for Hitler's plutocrats! All right-minded Germans help to demolish the Hitler war machine! So preventing further slaughter of fathers and sons! Work slowly, to make fewer children!' Photograph: The Guardian

By the end of the second world war, much of Berlin was destroyed. Wrecked vehicles lie on the Unter Den Linden boulevard near the Brandenburg Gate in 1945 Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

'Hitler's war is the worker's death! It will come however it will! No peace with the devilish Hitler regime. The nine-year-old shameful Nazi system must and will be affirmed by right-thinking Germans as ruined!' Photograph: The Guardian

'A German / German people wake up! We must free ourselves from Hitler'
Photograph: The Guardian

The centre of Berlin in 1945 Photograph: Fred Ramage/Getty Images

The cover for the paperback edition of Every Man Dies Alone in the US focuses on the Quangels' relationship
Photograph: The Guardian

The cover for the German edition of Jeder stirbt für sich allein suggests the loneliness of the Quangels' struggle Photograph: The Guardian

This memorial plaque on the wall of the Hampels' Berlin house – the closest they ever came to a tombstone Photograph: The Guardian