Those Who Save Us

The story of this book is about a woman (Anna) who is German and lives in Weimar, Germany at the time of WWII. She falls in love with a Jewish Doctor, gets pregnant and then it follows through how she existed during the war. It is also written in a second viewpoint of her daughter (Trudy) as a grownup who is a professor whose special study is WWII and how the german females were affected by the war.

It's interesting because Anna does not speak to her daughter at all about how she became a mistress to an SS officer or anything that happened before they moved to America after the war. She is ultimately shut down and pretends as if Trudy's life started the day they moved when in essence she was probably 4 or so before they did.

I never really fell in love with any of the characters. It was interesting to me to read a WWII book from a German viewpoint, and Anna's story was interesting, but I just never really cared what happened. I mean here we have a woman and her daughter who could potentially die at any minute and for some reason I just didn't believe it. Anna never really struck me as an actual person, and neither did grown up Trudy, so maybe that was what the author was going for.

And then, the ending just sucks. So overall, not a very good book. Plenty better ones to read!