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Summary: Remarkable! Historcal! Informative!
Review: How amazing, and refreshing to read about someone who had this unmistakable courage to lived among her enemies. We can only imagine how very scary her life must have been and yet she lived to tell us her story. I'm so proud of Edith, and I'm proud to have read about her story of survival!
I have to disagree with:
DULL Self-absorbed Tale, October 10, 2003
Reviewer: Sharyn Gantt from Accokeek, MD USA
Seems more fiction than fact to me; at most this reads like an embellished version of something resembling the truth. Seems to me we shouldn't be so quick to pass judgement on a life we never lived, true I too was not there but who am I to not trust this woman's experience. People like the above re-viewer have no place in my life.
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Summary: Not just history, but a real life story
Review: I am amazed that so many of my friends have never heard of this book. It was an easy read, and I did not want to put it down. Edith Hahn's story needed to be told, on behalf of all of those who survived as she did, outside the concentration camps. She was a woman of strength with the will to survive against all odds. Many books I give away or sell once I have finished them, but this book will remain on my own bookshelf to be read again!
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Summary: A, absolutely wondeful book
Review: I could not put this book down! From the minute I picked it up, I was completely engrossed. Although it is a heavy subject, it is an easy read and completelly captiviating as you follow the author on her journey. I have read many books on the Holocaust and WWII but I had never heard a story like this one. Her story shows a side of the war and the Jewish experience that is unique and sad. I highly recommend this book! It is fabulous and I am passing it on to friends and family immediatly!
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Summary: A real page-turner!
Review: I could not really believe the dust jacket when I read it. But, then, I read the book. I could not put it down. Good narrative style, and such an interesting story.
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Summary: A stunning tale of survival
Review: I did not think I could read yet another WWII/Holocaust book and I was put off by the odious notion of a Jewish woman marrying a Nazi officer for cover. Forget all that. Let no one judge until he/she has read this book, a simple tale of day-to-day survival. Beautifully written. A page turner.
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Summary: A completely gripping story
Review: I finished it in less than two days, unwilling to lay it down. Another similar book which I would recommend to anyone who liked this one is "When I Was a German, 1934-1945 : An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany," by Christabel Bielenberg. (check it out here on Amazon). I agree with other reviewers' praise of THE NAZI OFFICER'S WIFE and would mention one other thing about it which struck me. Edith Hahn was in Brandenburg after the war, which was in the Eastern sector. Here she was able (as a certified non-Nazi) to use her legal training in the court system, and she loved this work. Why then did she leave for England, where she had to work in menial positions for the rest of her working life? The kicker: the Russian authorities who controlled the sector, and their Communist underlings, called her in and asked her to work for them by spying on her neighbors and other contacts. Edith, horrified, says "I heard Goebbels' evil laughter in my ears." She ran away - using the same devious talents she had learned under the Nazis to wangle her way out of Eastern Germany. This book exposes the two great evils of the past century, and we should read about these things in order to - as the saying goes - "Never Forget."
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Summary: Compelling and enthralling
Review: I have just finished devouring Edith Hahn Beer's account and was completely entralled and with her story. It is a must read for anyone who in interested in the World War II Era and how we can not allow the world or anyone to let this happen again.
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Summary: Compelling
Review: I picked this biography up at Perl Mack Library on Saturday and had read the entire book by Sunday evening. This writing was the personal account of how one woman survived the Holocaust. The book is well written and compelling. The book being a complete and total success and valuable as a Holocaust account,is a book to be read again and again, understood and accepted for the truth of a woman's survival as well as the survival of many others she knew during that time be they Jewish or not. It is a read that should be noted for it's honesty and it's information. This book should be in every library, public, school and personal home library of all people who are concerned about the world today in that they will learn from the past. There is absolutely no way anyone could have any right whatsoever to judge anyone by the choices they made during that horrible time in the world's history. This book is honest and a tribute to the human spirit!
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Summary: An astounding account of terrible times
Review: I'm an 18-year old college student in India.My father had been to London recently where he ran into Ms.Angela at Harrods.Although,it was a chance meeting for him,it was a god-sent gift for me.She encouraged him to read a copy of "The Nazi Officer's Wife" written by her mother,Edith Hahn Beer.Although I must admit that war novels never interested me before,I was proven wrong by this one. Once I started reading the book,I just couldnt put it down.Here is a simple,straightforward account of a Jewsih woman whose faith in her religion and her strength never let her down inspite of the horrendous perils that she had to face every minute of her life during the World War period.When I try to understand the pain in her heart when she was refused her University Degree,when she had to leave her Mother for the Asparagus fields,when she had nobody to turn to after her relationship with her boyfriend was heading no where,when she had to put on an endless charade amidst the core of the Nazi society,when she had to rely on God's mercy to keep her Jewish identity a secret,when she had to work as a maid in London after being an honoured Judge in Germany.....what can i say,its just unimaginable that this woman managed to survive through all this on her own. There are so many lessons that this book has taught me.I can never stop admiring Edith Hahn Beer for her unshakeable faith that tomorrow is a better day.One of the most beautiful things I found in this book was the French saying "Life is beautiful and it begins tomorrow".It is so true that very few of us bother to realise its meaning! And of course,how can I forget to mention how moved I was by this woman's love for her Mother.Her belief that she would be reunited someday with her Mother,her pangs of grief when "she sent me cake when she was hungry,mittens when she was cold"...and her resolution to do the same for her daughter(by trying to provide her the family which she herself never had around her)....these things go a long way in bringing out human emotions in their most tender and vulnerable forms.One cannot help but think inwardly what else one could have done under such terrible circumstances. No doubt Ms.Beer's decisions were justified in every sense and they were ably supported by her virtues which we should all aspire to inculcate.
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Summary: Great book
Review: If you are interested in this part of WWII, be sure to read this one. It is well written and easy to read. No ranting, no theorizing, just plain reality. I just finished the book and I can't stop hurting for little Gretl!
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