About this title: This memoir recounts how one Jewish woman went underground in Nazi Germany, bravely posing as a non-Jew to survive. In her deception, she fell in love with and married a Nazi Party member. Here, accompanied by reproductions of original documents, she describes the psychological trauma of her ordeal.
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2000
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 1999
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Publisher: Rob Weisbach Books
Date Published: 1999-10
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 01/11/2000
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 1999
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Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 9/22/1999
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""The Nazi Officer's Wife" is about Edith Hann. She was living in Vienna when the Nazi's invaded. In order to escape the death camps and almost sure death, Edith assumed a new identity. Edith married a young German man named Werner Vetter. A series of mistakes from Werner and Edith led to the possibility of Edith's cover identity being blown. The question is will Edith be able to survive in Nazi Germany?
I can connect this book to the world by connecting it to Nazi Germany in WW2, after all this book is based on it. Edith, hiding out and assuming a new identity is what many Jewish people did in WW2. I can also make a text to text connection from this book to the Diary of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a girl who was in hiding for two years during WW2. Unfortunately she was discovered and taken to a death camp, where she died before the war was over.
I give this book four stars because it was very very good. The characters emotions were very real and it was like you were living beside them. Edith Han wrote a great, emotional book that at some points had me on the brink of tears or on the edge of my seat with fear for her and her family. The only problem was that this book made me a little depressed, but emotionally wise that could be a good thing."
"Once again, we are shown that all is possible if one has the right amount of courage, strength, honor and some luck. This is the story of a young woman who lives with her family in Vienna until the Nazi's take over and ruins their lives. The young women goes to two labor camps, is released to become a Red Cross Nurse and marries a card carrying nazi who isn't quite as committed to the Fuhrer as he should be. What's remarkable about this? She does all of it as a non-jew - a U-boat...under false identification papers. The book acquaints one further on the paperwork and rationing involved with eating, getting clothes, moving from town to town, etc. It also shows how quickly, with the urging of the Germans, many Austrians showed their true hatred of the jews."
"This was a bit of a different view from most Holocaust memoirs that I've read in that Edith never spent time in a work or death camp. However, it gave a very good view of what the public, Jewish and non-Jewish, was experiencing. The one view she didn't see much of was the Nazi Officer's view because she experiences that for a short time at the very end of the war, but still we are shown that it was a privileged existence. I found it interesting that she was horrified by the camp prisoners who had lost their sense of social norms and it was fascinating to see how quickly East Germany becomes a watchful communistic state, from which she flees."
"Once I got into this memoir, it was hard to stop reading it. If you've ever wondered what European Jews were thinking and doing during the rise of Nazi Germany, you will be as fascinated by this story as I was. Edith Hahn was a young Austrian woman training to become a judge when Hitler came to power, and she does an amazing job of describing what her life was like before, during, and after the Holocaust. Although the title suggests the whole story is about her marriage to a Nazi officer, Edith actually doesn't marry him until about half-way through the book.
The following pages really resonated with me:
p.56-57
"How can I describe you our confusion and terror when the Nazis took over? We had lived until yesterday in a rational world. Now everyone around us -- our schoolmates, neighbors, and teachers; our tradesmen, policemen, and bureaucrats -- had all gone mad. They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling 'prejudice.' What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism! In fact, they hated us with a hatred as old as their religion; they were born hating us, raised hating us; and now with the Anschluss, the veneer of civilization which had protected us from their hatred was stripped away....
The Nazi radio blamed us for every filthy evil thing in this world. The Nazis called us subhuman and, in the next breath, superhuman; accused us of plotting to murder them, to rob them blind; declared that they had to conquer the world to prevent us from conquering the world....
Did our friends and neighbors really believe this? Of course they didn't believe it. They were not stupid. But they had suffered depression, inflation, and joblessness. They wanted to be well-to-do again, and the fastest way to accomplish that was to steal. Cultivating a belief in the greed of the Jews gave them an excuse to steal everything the Jews possessed.
We sat in our flats, paralyzed with fear, waiting for the madness to end. Rational, charming, witty, dancing, generous Vienna must surely rebel against such insanity. We waited and we waited and it didn't end and it didn't end and still we waited and we waited.""
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