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The Nazi Officer's Wife(2003)

05/09/2003 (US)Documentary1h 30m
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How one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust

Overview

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.

Liz Garbus

Director

Movie Cast

Edith Hahn Beer photo
Julia Ormond photo

Julia Ormond

Edith Hahn (voice)

Susan Sarandon photo

Susan Sarandon

Narrator (voice)

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StatusReleased

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Original LanguageEnglish

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