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reading. Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler by Trudi Kanter View
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Trudi Kanter 258 pages; Scribner Available at: Amazon.com |
Barnes & Noble | iBookstore | IndieBound Who doesn't love buried
treasure, especially when it's of the literary variety? Part
love story and part intimate history of the Nazis' 1938 arrival
in Vienna, Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler was originally
released—and promptly forgotten—in 1984. Wandering through a
bookshop a few years ago, a British editor discovered the out-
of-print memoir and decided to republish it. What makes the book
so instantly mesmerizing is Trudi Kanter herself, who fashioned
sentences just the way she fashioned hats as a milliner in late
1930s Vienna—each a dazzling, delicate object of delight. When
Hitler overruns Austria, there is plenty of tension to draw the
story forward: Jew