The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust, Beer - B-

                                               This is the extraordinary history of Edith Hahn, a secular Jew who grew up in Vienna and was one exam away from her Doctorate in Law in 1938 when Austria's Nazi anti-Semitism roared onto the stage. She was dismissed from school and spent the next two years in a downward spiral, losing her possessions, her home and her freedom. She spent almost all of 1941 on an asparagus farm in Germany working as a slave laborer, and was then sent to a paper factory. In mid-1942, she was sent back to Vienna for transport to Poland. On the train, she took off her yellow star and, with the help of friends in Vienna, obtained Christian identification papers. She travelled to Munich and obtained a position with the Red Cross. A high-level businessman, exempt from the draft because he had lost vision in one eye, fell in love with her and proposed. He laughed when she told him she was Jewish, and they moved in together in 1943. They married late that year and in April, 1944, she gave birth to a daughter.  Her husband Werner was drafted late in 1944, promoted and sent east where he was captured by the Soviets and sent to Siberia. At wars end, she came out as Jewish and was made a a judge in the nascent legal system. Werner came home, but divorced her. Realizing the Soviets were as bad as the Nazi's, Edith escaped to England in late 1948. She remarried, lived a long life and wrote this book in the late-90's. She died a decade later.