Summary of The Nazi Officer?s Wife: by Edith Hahn Beer | Includes Analysis

Summary of The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer | Includes Analysis

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Chapter One

Hahn was hiding in plain sight in Germany in the fall

of 1943, which made her what hidden Jews called a

U-boat. She was twenty-nine, a Jewish law student on

the run, but she was able to pose as a Viennese girl

of twenty. She got a job as a nurse’s aide at a

Brandenburg hospital and lived with her ambitious

German fiancé, Werner, who was about to join the

Wehrmacht. 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. Anyone could be an informer. 

Chapter Two

In 1924, young Hahn was a happy child whose father

owned a restaurant in Vienna. 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. Mimi had a sour personality and

was not popular like sunny Hahn.Vienna seemed a

magical place filled with cafés and music. Hahn liked

her all-girls school even though prejudice against

Jews was rampant there.......

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