The Dutch Wife is a historical fiction novel written by Ellen Keith. This book is about World War Two. Marijke de Graaf are deported from Amsterdam and taken two two different concentration camps because they spoke up against the treatment of the Jewish people. Marijke is given a choice. She can stay at the concentration camp and be worked to death or transfer to the camp where her husband is and work in a brothel. I appreciated her story and the story of Karl Muller who worked as an officer at the camp. Woven into the story is Luciano Wagner who is imprisoned in Argentina by the military. I don't get why his story is written into this novel. The violence he experienced during his imprisonment was over the top and became too much for me. I wish the author had kept the story in Amsterdam and Germany and never went to Argentina.
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