The Nazi Officer's Wife
The most melodramatic Hollywood screenwriter could not concoct a tale as  full of dramatic reversals, conflicted characters, and astounding  coincidences as the story of Edith Hahn, an Austrian Jew who eluded Nazi  oppression by going underground as an Aryan woman in the heart of Germany.  When a Nazi factory manager named Vetter proposes to her after they've  only known each other a few weeks, she confesses her true identity--and he  marries her anyway. Her "U-boat" existence becomes an even more  complicated masquerade when Vetter is drafted into the Nazi army and  becomes an officer.The Nazi Officer's Wifelays out the story with  clarity and compassion, with all its contradictions and glimpses of human  goodness, in the face of monstrous evil, intact. The details of Hahn's  life are simply amazing. Interviews with Hahn, her daughter, and other  survivors give full dimension to the events.--Bret Fetzer