Then along came Inge Wolf who introduced Lilly to someone who shattered Lilly’s preconceptions. In early 1940s' Berlin, Lilly was an officer’s wife, as well as four small children, the couple shared anti-Semitic prejudice and Nazi affiliations. The love affair between Lilly (Elizabeth) Wust and Felice Schragenheim was brought to light in the 1990s by feminist author Erica Fischer. Anti-Semitic, Nazi housewife falls for young Jewish woman sounds like a dubious plotline from the kind of Holocaust-porn made popular by the commercial success of novels like The Tattooist of Auschwitz, but Fischer’s book’s based on actual events.
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