num_pages: 320
description: Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the extraordinary chain of events that led to her return to Vienna, her life as a 'hidden' Jew with an identity given to her by a German girlfriend, her marriage to a Nazi who knew she was Jewish and protected her, her intervention through her husband on behalf of Pepi, and her life at the end of the war in Eastern Germany where she was appointed a judge over the persecutors of her people. She fled the Communist regime there because of the conflicting emotions she felt for these who had NOT informed on her. She settled and married in London, and now lives in Israel, aged 84.
language: English
title: The Nazi Officer's Wife : How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
titlecomplete: The Nazi Officer's Wife : How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
genres: Autobiography, Historical, History, World War II, Holocaust, War, Biography Memoir, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 46691
places: Brandenburg an der Havel, Osterburg (Altmark), Aschersleben, Hainburg an der Donau, München, Vienna
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Audie Award
category: Biography/Memoir
publisher: Abacus