Final Notes on The Nazi Officer’s Wife

This is the last in my posts on The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust. (The first three are here, here, and here.)

Sometimes what Edith Hahn Beer calls “personal morality” comes through:

Frieda, the girl who had lost ten teeth, began to wail: “Why is the asparagus so much more important than human beings. [DRH note: Frieda and the author were among the slave laborers on a German asparagus farm.] Why are we living at all when the whole purpose of our life is such misery?”

The overseer...