A Private Treason: A German Memoir

A Private Treason is the memoir of a courageous German woman who, as a girl of nineteen from an upper-middle-class Gentile family, rejected Nazism completely and gave up her language and her country forever. Branded a “traitor,” she fled from the blitzkrieg to Vienna, the Dalmation islands, Paris, finally to the zone libre in southern France—a fugitive’s life preserved by forged identity papers and haunted by the fear of detention and arrest. Yet she managed to survive.

Now, she looks back o...