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emilycrall 's review for:
The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck
I've read a lot of WWII books written from a lot of different perspectives, but this is the first book I've read from the perspective of Germans, including one who helped run several training camps for young German children (to groom them to be "strong & pure Germans").
This book revolves around three women--Marianne, Ania, and Benita--and their unusual connection as widows of their husbands' resistance movement. They all have secrets. They all have pasts. And there are pieces of their pasts that they're trying to bury forever.
It was particularly interesting and thought-provoking to me to read a bit about the start of the war from the perspectives of Germans. How many turned their heads. How many assumed innocence because it was easier to believe that Hitler was truly trying to make their country better than to believe otherwise. It very much reminded me of the boiling frog thing, you know, where you put a frog in cold water and slowly boil it and the frog won't ever know it's being cooked.
This book revolves around three women--Marianne, Ania, and Benita--and their unusual connection as widows of their husbands' resistance movement. They all have secrets. They all have pasts. And there are pieces of their pasts that they're trying to bury forever.
It was particularly interesting and thought-provoking to me to read a bit about the start of the war from the perspectives of Germans. How many turned their heads. How many assumed innocence because it was easier to believe that Hitler was truly trying to make their country better than to believe otherwise. It very much reminded me of the boiling frog thing, you know, where you put a frog in cold water and slowly boil it and the frog won't ever know it's being cooked.