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

Shoal Bay Press, 2000. Spine very faded. Newspaper clipping inside.

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...'