The Nazi Officer's Wife (1999)

Directed by

Liz Garbus

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the true story of Edith Hahn-Beer, a Jewish woman in Nazi-era Vienna. To survive, she went into hiding and eventually married a Nazi officer. The film follows her life in disguise and the risks she took.

somberintimatereflectiverestrainedpersonalsoberingemotionalmatter-of-fact

What happens

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust is a 1999 autobiography by Austrian-born Edith Hahn-Beer. Written with the help of Susan Dworkin, the book's first edition was published by Rob Weibach Books and William Morrow and Company. A documentary film based on the source material and starring Hahn-Beer herself was released in 2003. A revised version of the book was published in 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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