The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin - A 30-Minute Instaread Summary: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

PLEASE NOTE: This is a "summary" of the book and NOT the original book. The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin - A 30-minute Instaread Summary Inside this Instaread Summary: Overview of the entire bookIntroduction to the Important people in the bookSummary and analysis of all the chapters in the bookKey Takeaways of the bookA Reader's Perspective Preview of the earlier Chapters 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 fiancE, 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 cafEs and music. Hahn liked her all-girls school even though prejudice against Jews was rampant there... View Less