A review by kendall_paigeee
The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

5.0

This book was so good. It really shows the choices you had to make in order to live in this time. Anke is such a strong character and I really like how the author incorporated g=flashbacks to before she was captured and some within the camps. I found it really interesting that Anke knew that she would draw attention to herself as a midwife so she pretended to be a sewer, until she was found out and put to use. I love the relationship between Anke and Dieter because it is a testimony to love in times of need and to show that yes Anke was a prisoner, but in different ways so was Dieter as an SS officer who didn't believe in Hitlers tactics and helped people out of Germany. The end was so powerful when Eva's baby was perfectly healthy with the exception of having a stub for a right hand, which was a deformity. Even as the fuhers wife/companion she knew that her baby would be taken away to be tested on so she asked Anke to get rid of the baby, in which Dieter smuggled out so the baby would grow up somewhere else.