The Nazi Officer’s Wife
Author: Edith Hahn Beer
Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the extraordinary chain of events that led to her return to Vienna, her life as a ‘hidden’ Jew with an identity given to her by a German girlfriend, her marri….Read More
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