The Nazi Officer's Wife
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Movie Review: Good enough to be a best-selling novel. But it is a true story &
Summary: 5 Stars
a documentary of one persons journey thru World War II & emerging as a survivor. Edith Hahn came from a secular Jewish, Austrian family living in Vienna. Edith was pursung her law school studies as the Nazis were descending on Austria. Her father had died earlier & her sisters seeing the danger wisely left for England. But Edith was deeply in love with a non-Jewish fellow law student. Besides, her mother was stiil in Vienna. The day after she passed all her tests she was denied a law degree & soon was arrested. Her mother, was arrested & died shortly. Edith was sent to a slave labor farm. She escaped & was now a fugitive Jew on the run. It is here that Edith runs into incredible good luck. She had many non-Jewish friends in her hometown. A friend supplies her with new idenity papers. Her own. This is of course, a capital offense & very brave act. Edith can now pass as a Aryan. But with two people having the same indentity in the same city, she must flee the country & she does, to Munich. She finds work in a hospital helping the wounded returning from the war. She goes out socially & meets an important Nazi official, Werner Vetter who quickly falls in love with her. He wants to take her home & be with him in Brantenburg, Germany. She agrees, but confesses to him that she is a Jew. He doesn't care & never betrays her. This, again, is a capital offense. As the story proceeds, we get some interesting glimpes of life in Nazi Germany before the bombing destroyed it. Soon Edith tells Werner that she wants to have a baby. It is interesting to note in other western countries at this time there is a stigma attached to having a child out of wed-lock. Not in Germany, where woman were honored for producing children for the Reich. But Werner feels a man in his position must marry, so they do. Edith enjoys a elevated position as the wife of an important official. She givres birth to a baby girl. A Jewish child that is delivered, cared for & nurtured by Nazis. Yet she does secretly hope for an eventual Allied victory. As Germany is being bombed, Werner is drafted as an officer in what is becoming a hopeless cause. The war ends & now Edith must begin a journey back to reclaiming her past. In this she is scorned by other Jews because she did not suffer as they did physically. As if it where a contest. However, the emotional toll & daily terror must have been intense on her & her daughter of being discovered. She does recalim her identity & living in the Russian sector is quickly able to secure her law degree. She becomes a judge in East Germany. Werner returns from the war, but things are not the same. The women he married is not the same. Neither is he the man. This is a fine movie that can stand on its own without a documantary label.Movie Review: Brilliant Memoir we are lucky to have the chance to read
Summary: 5 Stars
Fascinating and well described account of survival during WWII. It is easy to put yourself in her place as she describes how her rights were stripped away, how her family disappeared, how she struggled to survive and wonder what would you do? How would you feel? At the same time it is unbelievable that any civilized nation could do this to a people.
What this book demonstrated particularly well was the attitude of Germans during WWII, since Edith had the opportunity to live among them. Amazing, incredible story of survival. This is the sort of book that humbles me when I attempt to review it. It is incredible the amount of documentation she was able to hold on to throughout the war and show in the book in photos. Her papers are kept at the Holocaust Museum in DC.
Movie Review: What some people do to survive can seem unbelievable
Summary: 5 Stars
Edith Hahn's true story is on par with a great companion film EUROPA EUROPA.Both films explore the strange circumstances that some Jews of the 1940's Holocaust found themselves facing in order to survive such madness.Like EUROPA EUROPA,THE NAZI OFFICER'S WIFE is a film that chronicles the almost happenstance life of one Jewish woman facing danger and strange,almost "Unseen" occurances at every turn.This is a thrilling film.Edith Hahn's story also highlights the ways in which many people worked WITHIN The Nazi Party in order to save countless lives.This is a point that i
s often overlooked in many Holocaust films.
The 2007 Dutch thriller BLACK BOOK bares amazing similarities to the Edith Hahn story, and may well be based upon her exploits.
Movie Review: Strong Women in History
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is excellent and the matching A&E video is a plus AFTER you read her story here. What a super woman Ms. Hahn was and I was so sad to hear she passed away only a couple of days after I finished reading her story. This story will mean so much to me as well as anyone else who reads it. All Jews should be extremely proud of their heritage. I'm not Jewish and I'm very proud of their wonderful human spirit. God bless Edith Hahn Beer and all Jewish holocaust victims and survivors!Movie Review: Nazi Officer's Wife
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a most close to actual facts and old film records of the time. Voice overs were terrific. Well done.
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