The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
New York: Rob Weisbach Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Nea Fine. Item #003734
First edition stated, second printing. Quarter black paper, burgundy paper boards, gilt lettering to spine. 305 p.p., [16] p.p. B&W photos. Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced Edith and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a J. Edith was taken away to a labor camp, and when she returned home months later, she found her mother had been deported. Knowing she would become a hunted woman, Edith tore the yellow star from her clothing and went underground. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her but a Christian friend was not. Using the woman's identity papers, Edith fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret. In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear.
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