I need to read more of this book in order to properly review it.
This is a first look review.
Life doesn't seem too bad for Eva Bruhns. She is young, in love, and waiting for her boyfriend, Jurgen, to ask her father for her hand in marriage. She lives with her parents and older sister in an apartment above her father's restaurant, The German House. Jurgen comes from a wealthy family. He is trying to find the right time to tell his father that he wants to marry Eva, a girl from the other side of the tracks...so to speak. All in all, life is good.
Until Eva gets called, unexpectedly, to translate for what she thought was a civil suit. As she starts the translation, she realizes that it isn't a civil suit but a trial for war crimes. The defendants? Twenty-one German men who are being accused of torture, murder, and other crimes at Auschwitz. Neither her family nor her boyfriend agree with her participating in this trial. Many believe that since the war is over, the defendants went through a denazifying process, and all should be left alone. Eva's parents and Jurgen included.
Eva, like so many other people who were too young to remember the detail of Nazi Germany, realizes as she starts translating for the prosecuting attorney that not all is as she has believed it to be....
I would love to read this book in its entirety.
Life doesn't seem too bad for Eva Bruhns. She is young, in love, and waiting for her boyfriend, Jurgen, to ask her father for her hand in marriage. She lives with her parents and older sister in an apartment above her father's restaurant, The German House. Jurgen comes from a wealthy family. He is trying to find the right time to tell his father that he wants to marry Eva, a girl from the other side of the tracks...so to speak. All in all, life is good.
Until Eva gets called, unexpectedly, to translate for what she thought was a civil suit. As she starts the translation, she realizes that it isn't a civil suit but a trial for war crimes. The defendants? Twenty-one German men who are being accused of torture, murder, and other crimes at Auschwitz. Neither her family nor her boyfriend agree with her participating in this trial. Many believe that since the war is over, the defendants went through a denazifying process, and all should be left alone. Eva's parents and Jurgen included.
Eva, like so many other people who were too young to remember the detail of Nazi Germany, realizes as she starts translating for the prosecuting attorney that not all is as she has believed it to be....
I would love to read this book in its entirety.