

You see the risk, the helpless endurance when all around you hate. Not every one in the story is bad, and many are not good at all, but they are all so real and so ordinary. As you get to know the characters and see Nazi Germany from a frightened housewife?s point of view you get perspective. That the story is true just makes the story the more incredible. Hahn liked her all-girls school even though prejudice against Jews was rampant there.Listed to this whilst travelling from Cumbria to a GP Practice in East London and the journey just few buy. Mimi had a sour personality and was not popular like sunny Hahn.Vienna seemed a magical place filled with cafEs and music.


She had a sister, Mimi, who was a year younger, and a cherubic baby sister, Johanna, known as Hansi, who was seven years younger than Hahn. In 1924, young Hahn was a happy child whose father owned a restaurant in Vienna. Hahn was terrified that anything she did might expose her, such as sounding too intelligent, standing out in a crowd or being too kind to any of the 10,000 slave laborers in the area when they were taken to the hospital. She got a job as a nurse's aide at a Brandenburg hospital and lived with her ambitious German fiancE, Werner, who was about to join the Wehrmacht. She was twenty-nine, a Jewish law student on the run, but she was able to pose as a Viennese girl of twenty.

Hahn was hiding in plain sight in Germany in the fall of 1943, which made her what hidden Jews called a U-boat. The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin - A 30-minute Instaread Summary Inside this Instaread Summary: Overview of the entire bookIntroduction to the Important people in the bookSummary and analysis of all the chapters in the bookKey Takeaways of the bookA Reader's Perspective Preview of the earlier Chapters Chapter One PLEASE NOTE: This is a "summary" of the book and NOT the original book.
