Nazi Officer's Wife (Beer) - Book Reviews

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Born to a middle-class, nonobservant Jewish family, Beer was a popular teenager and successful law student when the Nazis moved into Austria. In a well-written narrative that reads like a novel, she relates the escalating fear and humiliating indignities she and others endured, as well as the anti-Semitism of friends and neighbors..... Her story is important both as a personal testament and as an inspiring example of perseverance in the face of terrible adversity.
Publishers Weekly


A well-written, tense, and intimate Holocaust memoir by an author with a remarkable war experience. Young Beer (nee Hahn) was a promising Viennese Jewish law student until the German Anschluss annexing Austria.... Beer took on an Austrian friend's documents... [even] marrying one Nazi.... She admitted her Jewishness to him but lived outwardly as a normal Hausfrau..... This engaging book goes deep...in explaining how the survival instinct allows one to sleep with the enemy. (Author tour)
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