NAZI OFFICER'S WIFE: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust (1999)

RATING:	100%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Walking through hell but not burning

Exceptionally well-written book chronicling the adventures of a young Austrian Jewess trapped by the events of the Second World War at the heart of the Third Reich. Her sort-of escape was to marry a Nazi Party member and to successfully conceal all evidence of her Jewishness.

What is striking about her story is that the thin veneer of so-called Western civilization could be so easily stripped away to reveal the Freudian repressions lurking beneath; with their attendant anger, resentment and bitterness directed at historical scapegoats: The Jews. That this would result in a climate of fear where Christian friends (& lovers) would turn their back on their Jewish counterparts is not altogether surprising given the historical antagonism between the two religions, but that Western Whites could be so White supremacist as to claim that even their fellow Whites - of a different religion - were to be as persecuted as non-Whites traditionally are. This suggests that the West is so institutionally racist that skin color is as equally significant as it is insignificant! With White supremacism, not even Whites are safe! Still, no-one ever said racism had to be either logical or consistent. And this is what makes this book so fascinating: A White woman passing as a White woman. (This could not work a for a Jew since a man would then be conscripted into the armed services and risk death that way.)

This is every bit as good as The Diary of Ann Frank in its especially-vivid depictions of the everyday fear of being picked up by the Gestapo and the resulting psychological tension of being a foreigner in one's own land. These are clearly memories burned into the mind of the percipient as if a Black man had turned White overnight and suddenly found Whites treating him as Black.

The ultimate point of this book is that cultural assimilation and integration is always a politically-correct charade. It is White supremacist in concept since it places Whites at the top of a cultural system where they decide the rules and they decide who is and is not acceptable. It is no better than the Nazism it claims to supersede.

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