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The Nazi Officer's Wife

How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

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The Nazi Officer's Wife

By: Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
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 Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman, so she went underground.

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 even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret.

©1999 Pritchards Trustees Ltd. as Trustee of the Edith Hahn Trust. All Rights Reserved. (P)2003 Jewish Contemporary Classics, Inc. 20th Century Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Judaism Military Modern Women Holocaust War

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I really enjoyed this book. I thought it would be more like the title in the fact that her husband would be more involved in the Nazi party but he is not. It's more about how she deals with normal life living in Germany during the war. She tells stories about what she was forced to do which was very interesting. I would recommend this book as its a new insight in to a person's life living in an horrendous time.

Very interesting

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wonderfully read, beautifully written, I was hooked after a few minutes.

This feels like a true recollection written honestly.

a truly amazing story

an intimate insight into this amazing woman's life

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A fantastic story, well read and well written. A must for 2nd world war historians.

A fantastic story, well read and well written

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this audiobook is simply fantastic,feel the fear,its a wonder she kept saine,fabulous story-had to listen to it in a few sittings

amazing life

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Narrator has done a good job relating this story. A very interesting and well presented story. Gripping throughout and very helpful in keeping the memories…. of what should never happen again alive… for future generations.

Engrossing and well read.

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What an amazing story. It unfolds slowly but the tension keeps building until it starts to feel like fiction. Such details of the buildup of the Nazi terror and killing machine seen experienced by Austrian citizens I had never realized, vividly brought to life.
I have just spent (July 2013) a few days in Vienna where the tour guides don't even mention the war (except how draconian the Versailles Treaty from WWI was). No mention of the Holocaust. I couldn't believe it. So stories like this one need to be told and need to be heard. The narrator used many authentic voices - keeping me enthralled.
If I had been editing this before it went to print, I would have encouraged more detail about the author's life after WWII. That's my only complaint - it wasn't long enough!

Listen to this to believe it...astonishing.

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This book was bought alive by the beautiful narration of Barbara Rosenblat.

This is a harrowing story of a Jewish woman’s survival in Nazi German. She is strong brave and resilient and her story is an important part of history.

Survival story

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This book was really great to listen to. It allows you to try and imaginge what it must of been like for Jews during the was.It was also nail biting stuff on several occassions. A definate must have.

What a fab book

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The Nazi Officer's wife is an extraordinary journey into the Holocaust experience. It is honest, heartwarming, forthright, and immensely entertaining. I thoroughly recommend it

An Extraordinary Journey

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Listed to this whilst travelling from Cumbria to a GP Practice in East London and the journey just few buy. That the story is true just makes the story the more incredible. As you get to know the characters and see Nazi Germany from a frightened housewife?s point of view you get perspective. Not every one in the story is bad, and many are not good at all, but they are all so real and so ordinary. You see the risk, the helpless endurance when all around you hate. You see how bad things can get and how grateful we can all be for the simple safety of our homes. It left me wondering if in the end, I could have come through what she came through with as much dignity and humanity. It also on a personal level, without getting all weird about it, made me reflect on suffering. How in the end it?s so individual. Millions might be suffering, but its millions of individuals just like you and I.

I have hundreds of Audible books now as I have been a member since only Audible.Com existed, and this is still one of my favourite listens.

A riveting Story

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