Summary ofThe Nazi Officer's WifeFrom Edith Hahn BeerSummary StationThis book begins with a preface that explains that the story is a true one. Edith Hahn Beer fled from the Gestapo by living under a false identity in Nazi Germany. In 1997, she sold her archive of wartime documents, including letters and pictures, which eventually made their way to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Beer avoided telling her story for years, but her daughter's questions and concern with her mother's past led to her mother's revisiting of those documents to remind her of all she live through. Her daughter encouraged her to tell her story at last.