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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