The Nazi Officers Wife

Posted on 16 February 2018 by Edith Hahn Beer

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a J Soon, Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and though she convinced Nazi officials to spare her mother, when she returned home, her mother had been deported Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing and went underground, scavenging for food and searching each night for a safe place to sleep Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not With the woman s identity papers in hand, Edith fled to Munich There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her And despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret.In vivid, wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear She tells of German officials who casually questioned the lineage of her parents of how, when giving birth to her daughter, she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal her past and of how, after her husband was captured by the Russians and sent to Siberia, Edith was bombed out of her house and had to hide in a closet with her daughter while drunken Russians soldiers raped women on the street.Yet despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith Hahn created a remarkable collective record of survival She saved every set of real and falsified papers, letters she received from her lost love, Pepi, and photographs she managed to take inside labor camps On exhibit at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., these hundreds of documents form the fabric of an epic story complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant. Best Read The Nazi Officers Wife [ Author ] Edith Hahn Beer [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I have read a good number of books about the holocaust and most of them were novels I keep reading them because they are gut wrenching and they keep reminding me that it s important for us to acknowledge and remember what happened in those concentration and death camps Reading a memoir like this one, only reminds me all thehow horrific this history was and that this happened to real people.This book is not about the concentration or death camps but it is about the courage and determinat I have read a good number of books ab...The Nazi Officer s Wife is an autobiographical account of Edith Hahn Beer s life as a U boat during the second world war A U boat is a Jew who lives in Nazi occupied territory passing themselves off as German.This is a really eye opening book, especially for people with a keen interest in this period of history Hahn Beer starts her story back in her childhood, a time before War was declared but things were tense in her home country of Austria She talks about her childhood friends and local ne The Nazi Officer s Wife is an autobiog...Wow I can t even Five brilliant stars.NO SPOILERS This is a four star book Recently another GR friend rated this with three stars, and to be honest, I was flabbergasted HOW CAN YOU NOT BE MOVED BY THIS BOOK zinged through my head I will try and explain without giving spoilers First of all, if you are the kind of person, like me, that highly values straight talk, and talk that does not shy away from ANY subject sex, love, cruelty, motherhood, lying, corruption, guilt and survival then this is a book for you Edith will s NO SPOILERS This is a four star book Recently another GR friend rated this with three stars, and to be honest, I was flabbergasted HOW CAN YOU NOT BE MOVED BY THIS BOOK zinged through my head I will try and explain without giving spoilers First of all, if you are the kind of person, like me, that highly values straight talk, and talk that does not shy away from ANY subject sex, love, cruelty, motherhood, lying, corruption, guilt and survival then this is a book for you Edith will say Now remember this. to jolt you She will say Now maybe you are questioning how I could and then she explains so clearly and so succinctly that what before seemed strange is know dazzingly obvious The fantastic prose hits you from the first page Then as you get to know Edith Grete you are drawn into her moral dilemas, the choices she made When I picked u...It annoys me hearing millennials whine about how they need faster internet and all the latest cell phones before anyone bites my head off, I m of the millennial generation myself so I m not trying to be prejudiced People of my generation take everything they have, not just their material items but also their rights and freedoms, for granted This book tells the story of a woman whose freedom was taken from her, livin...What makes this memoir of an Austrian Jewish woman relentlessly moving is the attention to detail, the sharp incisive nature of Hahn s observations These eloquently described details bring the narrative vividly to life The title is slightly misleading and hints perhaps at a cinematic melodrama which does this book a disservice Her husband was a painter, blind in one eye and thu...Edith Hahn was one of the few Jews hiding in plain sight in the Reich during the Second World War Jews who evaded deportation were known as U boats Those who could pass for Aryan in looks and had the right connections could take their chances living on falsified papers That s how Edith Hahn, 29 year old Austrian law student, became Grete Denner, meek 21 year old nurse s aid living in Munich Every day s...This is an incredible, true story That doesn t give it a free pass as a book To put it plainly, it is badly written In fact it is not written at all, the spoken interview was committed directly to publishing I knew a girl Her name was so and so She had red hair I liked her brother a lot The red haired girl is then never mentioned again while the brother only pops up again, and is finally named, fifty pages later We all talk like this But this is not how written text works The book s This is an incredible, true story That doesn t give it a free pass as a book To put it plainly, it is badly written In fact it is not written at all, the spoken interview was committed directly to publishing I knew a girl Her name was so and so She had red hair I liked her brother a lot The red haired girl is then never mentione...I found this to be a fascinating book, I could hardly put it down I found the fact that a highly educated woman successfully played an uneducated woman How difficult it much have been not to accidently just say something or use words above her station in life She lived day to day with the fear of being caught and sent to a concentration camp Edith only had one examination to take to receive her J D degree in law with extra training as a judge She arrived to take the last examination and I found this to be a fascinating book, I could hardly put it down I found the fact that a highly educated woman successfully played an uneducated woman How difficult it much have been not to accidently just say something or use words above her station in life She lived day to day with the fear of being caught and sent to a concentration camp Edith only had one examination to take to receive her J D degree in law with extra training as a judge She arrived to take the last examination and was refused admittance and removed from the university because she was a Jew, from that moment on her life was in a downward turmoil She was sent off to a labor camp for Jews doing hard physic...This felt like a conversation with the author, between only the two of us I loved it I loved how easy it read in that way Stories as personal as this are some of my favorites and this is right near the top The photos the author included are astounding, some of the words can even be made out The reader can actually see, although I couldn t read it, the letter her husband had smuggled to her from a Siberian prisoner when he was a POW I think the biggest thing for me was how clear she made wh This felt like a conversation with the author, between only the two of us I loved it I loved how easy it read in that way Stories as personal as this are some of my favorites an...

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16 February 2018

Edith Hahn Beer