![]() ![]() When the new rules forbid Edith to continue her University studies, and she is deported to a farm labour-camp in Germany, she begins to realise the enormity and the inescapability of her situation. Edith recounts how the small details of “every-day life” changing for the family and the wider Viennese Jewish community were the incremental descent into being turned into an undesirable “untermensch” (sub-human), and an enemy to her once-beloved country. The narrative conveys Edith’s sense of trust in Austria during the early years of the war, so that when the Austrian “Anschluss” to Germany occurs Edith is emotionally and practically unprepared. Born into a middle-class Jewish Viennese family, Edith was fortunate to be sent to law-school and was involved in progressive political thinking of that time. ![]() ![]() The Nazi Officer’s Wife is Edith Hahn Beer’s frank and simple account of her life, from living in a Viennese Jewish ghetto, to becoming the wife of a Nazi officer in Germany. ![]()
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