The Nazi Officer's Wife

How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocust

By Hahn-Beer, Edith & Rosenblat, Barbara & Dworkin, Susan

Publishers Summary:
6 cassettes, UNABRIDGED. Edith Hahn Beer was a brilliant young Jewish law student from Vienna at the time of the Nazi triumph in Austria. After being forced into a slave labor camp, she adopted the identity of a Christian friend and became a "U-Boat," a Jewish fugitive hiding in the heart of the Third Reich. Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member, fell in love with her and even after she told him her true identity, he kept her secret through the war. The collection of papers documenting her true story is now in the U.S. Holocaust museam in Washington, D.C.

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ISBN
978-1-89307-925-0
Publisher
Jewish Contemporary Classics Inc


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Reviewed on February 1, 2004

Beer grows up an assimilated Jew in pre-Nazi Vienna; she even attends law school and plans to be a judge. She falls in love with another secular Jew and plans a happy life; then she is expelled, first from school, then from all normal activities. To survive, she adopts the identity of a Christian friend, becoming a "U boat" (a Jew hiding among Nazis). The author then falls in love with a Nazi; they marry, and she becomes Grete, the perfect Third Rei...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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