Strawberries with the Fuhrer - A Journey from the Third Reich to New Zealand

Shoal Bay Press, 2000. Spine very faded.

Helga Tiscenko nee Hofle was born in Germany in 1929, the elder daughter of a warm, close-knit, middle class family. But this was no ordinary family: her parents were committed members of the National Socialist Party and during WW2 her father rose to the rank of general in the Waffen SS. She paints a vivid picture of her childhood in pre-war Germany and tells of her experiences during the war and the final days of the Third Reich - from a perspective that has not often been explored. Her account of emigrating to New Zealand, where she and her Russian husband were sent to live in the alein environment of a raw hydro-electric township in the South Island, isanother extraordinary chapter in the life of this most singular woman. Now, she and her husband Nick, quite simply, describe their present life as `being in paradise...'