The story of Anna Mendel and Ingrid Brecht, Jewish and Protestant girls who were best friends until Anna joined the resistance and Ingrid became a guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz .
The story of Anna Mendel and Ingrid Brecht, Jewish and Protestant girls who were best friends until Anna joined the resistance and Ingrid became a guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz .
Years later in 2006 after fifty years of being an American rabbi's wife, Ingrid reaches out to Dr.Anna Mendel for help during her deportation hearing, stirring up feelings of anger, betrayal and revealing the surprising reason why Anna was released from Auschwitz in 1945.
Can Ingrid Levy ever escape her past as Lagerfuhrerin Brecht or ever do enough good to earn peace in this life? The answer blooms in the Berlin Tiergarten, the Garden of the Beasts, during a raging thunderstorm.
Professional Reviews
Five Stars
Reviewed by Maria Beltran for Readers' Favorite
Jewish and Protestant girls faced the various aspects of life with different perspectives, during the Nazi regime. Anna Mendel joins the resistance and Ingrid Brecht becomes a guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. After fifty years of being an American rabbi's wife, Ingrid reaches out to Dr. Anna Mendel for help during her deportation hearing – an unexpected event that brings back the haunting memories of the past. Has time succeeded in softening the hearts of these two wounded women who used to be the best of friends? Can Ingrid get away from her past as Lagerfuhrerin in Brecht? And will Anna ever know the reason why she was released from Auschwitz in 1945?
It may seem, at first reading, that D.A. Chadwick is simply telling a story about the other side of Hitler’s Nazi Germany but there are actually interesting details in “The Good Nazi” that get through your heart. Human kindness has never been explored so really and emotionally in novels lately. The book is truly a blessing to the human race. There is no denying that Chadwick has great talent when it comes to storytelling. In this book she gives you one of the most astonishing journeys of your life and still sees hope floating in the air, no matter how impossible the whole situation may be. She remains a true master of her craft by keeping her readers hooked till the end. She is a reliable writer and “The Good Nazi” deserves to be recommended highly.
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