The Nazi Officer's Wife

The Nazi Officer's Wife

90 mins | Documentary | May 9, 2003

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.

The Nazi Officer's Wife

90 mins | Documentary | May 9, 2003

The Nazi Officer's Wife
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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers
Original title The Nazi Officer's Wife
Directors Liz Garbus
Writers Jack Youngelson, Edith Hahn Beer

Cast

Edith Hahn Beer

as Herself

Julia Ormond

as Edith Hahn (voice)

Susan Sarandon

as Narrator (voice)