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Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later?? she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend?? she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter?? a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish?? he married her and kept her identity a secret.
In wrenching detail?? Edith recalls a life of constant?? almost paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all painkillers?? afraid that in an