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The Nazi Officer's Wife
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The Nazi Officer's Wife (1999) (edit title/settings)

How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

by Edith Hahn-Beer (Author) (edit contributors)

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Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the extraordinary chain of events that led to her return to Vienna, her life... read more

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Edith Hahn was an outspoken young women in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young women in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.
In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralizing fear. She tells how German Officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the street.
Despite the risk it posed on her life, Edith created a remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as photographs she took inside the labor camps. Now part of the permanent collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of the Holocaust- complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.

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AFTER A WHILE, there were no more onions.

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Preface

1. The Small Voice from Then
2. The Hahns of Vienna
3. Pepi Rosenfeld's Good Little Girl
4. The Trap Set by Love
5. The Asparagus Plantation at Osterburg
6. The Slave Girls of Aschersleben
7. Transformation in Vienna
8. The White Knight of Munich
9. A Quiet Life on Immelmannstrasse
10. A Respectable Aryan Household
11. The Fall of Brandenburg
12. Surfacing
13. I Heard the Fiend Goebbels, Laughing
14. Pepi's Last Package

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  • U-Boat: Normally a name for a German submarine, in this case it refers to the way in which some Jews survived the Holocaust -- by going underground, often using false identity papers.

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This book is in World War II: Memoirs. (community list)

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  1. Edith Hahn-Beer (Author)

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  1. Susan Dworkin (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Rob Weisbach Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 068816689X
Page Count: 320

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