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A complex idea but treated rather simplistically, I'm afraid. The judge in the case decides during the middle of the trial they must all go to Poland in order to validate testimonies given from both sides. Eva's now fiancee tells her not to go, but she needs her job ,and at this point she is better versed on the subject of the Holocaust. It didn't take long for her to piece together what she is hearing- is real; that these witnesses lived in that place "Auschwitz", that these witnesses are being asked to recount stories of what it was like to live there. As with many books, documentaries, memoirs of any horrendous act I am left feeling disappointed with humans and what we are capable of. To ask other readers questions aboutThe German House,please sign up.
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Young Eva Bruhn takes the role of translator at the trials and is shocked and appalled at what she hears. The trials hope to bring a sense of justice and prosecute those German's who committed the horrific war crimes in Auschwitz. However, this opens a can of worms and Eva is left contemplating why her family will not talk about the war and their roles in it. But Eva is adamant about discovering the truth and will not stop until she knows. I think I liked the topic a bit more than the execution.
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Accepting a new job translating at a trial, she is torn between her career and her boyfriend, Jurgen, who wants her to be a stay at home wife. Eva then learns that her own family does not agree with her involvement as a translator in the trial either. Translating for the Polish victims of the Holocaust, Eva is met with stories of horror and bravery.
Years after Auschwitz was liberated, ex-Nazi officers face criminal charges for the wartime acts of brutality they inflicted on innocent prisoners. Many parts were sickening to listen to, as with any book focused on the devastation endured at Auschwitz. As she becomes more deeply involved in the Frankfurt Trials, Eva begins to question her family’s silence on the war and her future. Does she really love Jürgen and will she be happy as a housewife? The 16th edition makes the BH&G standard a contemporary, very friendly and very wise addition to your kitchen library.
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Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy in return for an open and honest review. We meet Eva who works there as a translator for the Polish witnesses who were testifying against the Germans. Her boyfriend Jürgen Schoorman, son of a wealthy businessman, seems only to pretend to be interested in hearing her accounts of her day’s work. In fact, he does not want his future wife working at all. I would like to thank HarperVia and Bookishfirst for my Advanced Reader copy in exchange for this unbiased review. On a personal note, I have never visited Poland or Auschwitz, but I have toured Dachau in Germany.
At the war’s end, Frankfurt was a smoldering ruin, severely damaged by the Allied bombings. Now it is 1963, and the city’s streets, once cratered are smooth and paved. Eager for her wealthy suitor, Jürgen Schoormann, to propose, Eva dreams of starting a new life away from her parents and sister. But Eva’s plans are turned upside down when a fiery investigator, David Miller, hires her as a translator for a war crimes trial.
It is 1963 in Germany where the Frankfurt trials are ready to get underway. This book sent me down many internet rabbit holes, googling various matters raised in the book and I felt like the author really captured the feelings of the people in this account from the articles I stumbled upon. Thank you to the publisher and BookishFirst for sending me an advance reader's copy! I was under no obligation to post a review here and all views expressed are my honest opinion. The only small criticism I have of the book is in my opinion Annegret's storyline wasn't entirely necessary.
It is indeed a very difficult thing to get the feel of a text and sufficiently unhook it from its mother tongue and slide it into the translated language. There is a lot of ‘Sprachgefühl‘ involved – a feeling, as it were, for the language that really cannot be quantified. Even though i didn’t think some of the writing of sufficient literary quality, the importance of the story and the fact that the novel successfully brings it to life make it a valuable book. The German House by Annette Hess, a successful screenwriter, was first published in Germany in 2018 as Deutsches Haus. The Harper Collins copy I read has been translated into English from German by Elisabeth Lauffer.
Eva lives above The German House – a restaurant run by her parents, Ludwig and Edith Bruhns, her sister, Annegret and young brother, Stefan. Eva is hoping to marry Jurgen Schoormann, whose wealthy father runs a famous mail order catalogue. The German House by Annette Hess, translated from German by Elisabeth Lauffer, focuses on Eva Bruhn, a young German woman who works as a Polish translator. Her family owns a popular Frankfurt restaurant, The German House. When Eva is called upon to translate at the trial of accused Nazi war criminals, her eyes are opened to the terrible atrocities of her country’s recent past, which occurred when she was quite young. She attempts to talk about the witnesses’ testimonies when she rejoins her parents at home in the evenings, but they refuse to listen.
Eva is too young to have known what transpired during the war herself, & everyone she knows refuses to talk about it. As she is living her life of finding herself, as well as finding a husband, she is pulled into translating during the Frankfurt trials. Naturally, her family & boyfriend vehemently oppose to Eva taking part in the trials. In 1963 in Frankfurt, Germany, Eva Bruhns is a bright, 24-year-old woman eager for her future to start while living with her parents, sister, and little brother. The destruction of World War II is in the past now that the city, including her parents’ restaurant, is rebuilt. Eva helps her parents at their restaurant, The German House, in between her work as a Polish translator and dates with her suitor, the wealthy son of a businessman, Jürgen Schoormann.
It will see Eva bravely enter the gates of Auschwitz and confront her family about their dubious past. Eva’s family and fiancee, both voice their displeasure at her acceptance of the job. Eva has not even heard of Auschwitz, nor the horrific events that occurred there. As the trial progresses, Eva struggles to cope with the realization of the magnitude of the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi regime. After Eva uncovers painful secrets about her own family during the war period, she makes life changing decisions in order to remain true to herself and her own conscience.
Her life changes forever when she is tapped to be the translator for the Auschwitz survivors who are to give their heartbreaking testimony against the defendants on trial for their war crimes. It wasn’t until I started compiling this review that it dawned on me that The German House is in fact a coming of age, or a ‘bildungsroman’ style novel. The narrator is a little older than I would expect for this category, but I could see the links.
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