The Nazi Officer's Wife By Edith Hahn Beer

The book the Nazi Officer’s Wife was a true story written by Edith Hahn Beer with the assistance of Susan Dworkin and told a story of one woman’s amazing journey through life in Nazi Germany. This adventure revealed a unique story showing the emotion and detail of the time period and the struggles of being Jewish while being surrounded by German Nazi’s. Edith Hahn Beer begun her story when she was just a schoolgirl living in Vienna, Austria. She happily lived with her two sisters and her mother, Klothilde Hahn and father, Leopold Hahn. Edith’s family, although was Jewish, never attended the synagogue or spoke Yiddish in the household, still this was not an advantage. As Edith grew a few years she excelled at school and had to convince her

This is because they are very effective for inflicting fear on the people and making sure that they do not disobey also to treat the ones who have disobeyed the dictator's rule. These camps consist of horrible basic necessities such as lacking food, unclean water, poor sanitation, and torture. The main purpose of sending rejects to labor camps instead of prisons was to work them to death and get more production done for very cheap since they were not paid. Since our main character was placed in a labor camp in her life there is very vivid description of how the camp is worked and how she felt inside. Grete was first sent to a labour camp in Osterburg where she worked as a slave laborer through any type of weather condition. At one point in the sticky mud harvesting she yelled at her superior while her friends were falling down from exhaustion “Do our lives not matter to you? Are we not more important than the damn cotton for once!” This showed that in the camps these ladies were treated as less than animals. In the night some of the women would get raped and during the day if any spoke up they would be hit. They would work exhausting hours such as starting at 4am in the morning and working until the late night. They would hardly ever get a day off and when they did, they would use the little money they had to go purchase food. The conditions were the same when she was moved to a different city to work in a box making plant. Grete would often bleed from working the machines so long and ached so badly from having to stand for the majority of her day. This book was very expressive on the topic of labor camps since not only one was mentioned, but it mentioned the farm plus factory work. Limitations of this book are very limited if there is any to be