How the Nazis Stole a Cookbook

Via Deutsche Welle (DW):

Alice was a small, sweet, chubby woman with a 'dumpling figure,'" her granddaughter Karina Urbach told DW. The historian just published The Book Alice: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook. She remembers her grandmother as amusing and funny, loving and generous and always well dressed. Unlike her grandmother, Karina Urbach said she is not much of a cook. "That's why I was never interested in the fact that two cookbooks titled This Is How We Cook in Vienna! were on our shelves at home," she said.

The text and also the color photographs are identical in the books, only the names of the authors on the covers were different: "On the 1938 edition, Alice Urbach was named as the author, while on the 1939 edition it was a man named Rudolf Rösch," Karina Urbach reveals in the first pages of her book. What she discovered in the course of her research is a surprise.

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