The German Wife

By Kelly Rimmer,

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I grew up loving the culture and language of Germany and my own German heritage. Still, I've always been haunted by the question of how so many Germans went along with -- or at the very least allowed -- Adolph Hitler to carry out his horrific plan for world domination and genocide.

The German Wife is a deeply moving story that answers the question of how one family was inexorably ensnared by the Nazi party and forced into compliance with evil.

The parallel story in this dual-timeline novel was an equally compelling view of the complicity of the United States…

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