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1 1 y separately published work icon Sascha : A Story of Love and Survival Ingeborg Hesse , Sydney : Bantam Books , 1991 Z828008 1991 single work autobiography war literature

'The author's recollections of her life in Eastern Europe, prior to and during WWII. The memoirs reveal her experience as mistress to the infamous Nazi war criminal, Eduard Roschmann, "The Butcher of Riga", as well as the passionate affair with her true love, Sascha, a Jew. Her life culminates in tragedy, then triumph, as Inge and her young daughter escape to build their new life in Australia.' (Google Books)

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