"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.
Now, she looks back.
Yet she managed to survive.
Branded a traitor, she fled from the blitzkrieg to Vienna, the Dalmation islands, Paris, finally to the "zone libre" in southern Francea fugitive s life preserved by forged identity papers and haunted by the fear of detention and arrest. "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