Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler

Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler is a 1984 memoir written by Trudi Kanter. The book was initially published in 1984 but was out of print till 1987 when it was discovered by Ursula Doyle in one of the bookstores in Cambridge, England. From 1987 to 2011 it was out of print again.

Plot
The book tells a story of hatmaker who is Jewish and becomes in love with Walter, during World War II or precisely during its beginning. Then they live through it, starting from 1938 when the Germans occupy Austria, and ending with Germany defeat by the Allies in 1945. During the war, she also ends up dating Pepi for a while with whom she left best friends. When the Germans invade her homeland, Austria, she immigrates to Czechoslovakia because they establish Kristallnacht, a series of anti-Jewish pogroms. Later on, she and Walter met in Prague the then capital of Czechoslovakia and then obtained visas to Liverpool, England. There, Walter was detained and was sent to an internal camp where he stayed till the end of the war. After his release, Trudi marries to him but he lives for 15 more years after it.

Reception
The book received two and one-half stars on a scale of four from USA Today.