Gerhardi, Helga, — HELGA.

Virona, Aylesbury, 1994, reprint, half tone photo ills. and facsimiles in text, large format (8.5 x 5.5 inches approx.), pictorial upper wrapper, breaking the silence of the horrors faced by people from the Eastern states of Germany at the end of WW2, the story of a Swiss family trying to live an ordinary life in Hitler's Germany and told by Helga, the daughter who, as a young girl, she met Hitler and supported her mother when the SS repeatedly searched their home. As a medical student she cared for some of the thousands of woun ded soldiers returning from the Russian front but by 1944/5 she herself joined the refugee treks in the severe winter being chased and shot at by the Russian army, eventually escaping south in search of her family, which is finally reunited, lightly rubbed at tips, cnrs. inclined to curl, near fine,