Sue Deaton's Reviews > The German Midwife

The description of this book intrigued me and I was looking forward to reading it. I was deeply disappointed. The idea that Hitler's female companion is pregnant and they pick a midwife that is a political prisoner in a concentration camp to tend to her is ridiculous, but I went with it, it is fiction after all. However, from there it just got worse. Anke see the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the concentration camps. But when she is plucked from the camp to be a midwife for Eva Braun, she forgets all that and happily enjoys her new, comfortable life. Oh, and her family is also in a concentration camp but, no worries, they will be fine as long as she does what she is told. All the Nazis treat her well and she feels free to talk back to them every step of the way. No concern that they might shoot her or kill her family. Then she falls in love with a Nazi officer right away. I have to say, I find it beyond unbelievable to think a person could live in a concentration camp and then fall in love with a Nazi without even knowing anything about him. Also, Eva Braun is portrayed as a sweet, innocent, kind young woman when, by all accounts of historians, she was just as much a hateful Nazi as Hitler. This book rambled on and on without adding to the story. The descriptions of delivering babies was a little too much for me but also felt like the author added that just to have more words in the book. The book really did not have much story to it. It was just rambling and repeating things over and over. Anke was not an interesting or very likable character. I had to force myself to finish this book. I feel like I wasted every second I spent reading this book. The ending was just as bad as the rest. I would not recommend this book.