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The Nazi Officer's Wife

"How one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust"

2003-05-09
6.4
en 90m
Documentary
In 1938 Edith Hahn was a Viennese law student - a "Christmas-tree Jew" with a gentile boyfriend. In 1942 she was living under an assumed name in Munich and married to Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who was later drafted into the Wehrmacht. Based on Hahn's acclaimed memoir, "The Nazi Officer's Wife" is the riveting account of how she survived the Holocaust by posing as an Aryan hausfrau. Despite the risks, she kept painstaking records including real and falsified documents and photos of labor camps. These moving artifacts along with testimony from Hahn and her daughter bring this tale of survival resilience and redemption to life.

Director

Liz Garbus

Screenplay

Jack Youngelson

Novel

Edith Hahn Beer

woman director

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies