Marion Kummerow Books in Order

Kummerow shares the customs, foods, decorations, and family rituals that shape Christmas in Germany. It is a warm, personal introduction to Advent, St. Nicholas Day, markets, and festive baking.

A practical guide to navigating Munich's tough rental market. It covers the search, paperwork, viewings, and local habits that can confuse newcomers.

This guide explains how Oktoberfest works, from reservations and beer tents to transport, food, songs, and what to wear. A useful starting point if you want the festival to feel less overwhelming.

A short guide to Munich's famous Hofbräuhaus, with background, local context, and tips on what to expect inside. Good for visitors who want more than the standard postcard version.

In 1932 Berlin, chemist Wilhelm Quedlin and Hilde Dremmer fall in love as Hitler rises to power. Their private hopes become part of a dangerous fight against the regime taking over their country.

Q and Hilde try to protect their family while resistance work pulls them deeper into danger. Sabotage, secret intelligence, and a possible assassination plan test how much they are willing to risk.

When Wilhelm is arrested and Hilde is swept into the Nazi prison system, their family begins to unravel. Even in cells and courtrooms, they keep looking for one last chance to survive with hope intact.

Anna survives brutal work as a nurse in a concentration camp and dreams of a different life. But once she discovers a Nazi secret hidden behind scientific ambition, looking away is no longer an option.

Sent away from Berlin, stubborn seventeen-year-old Lotte thinks boredom will be her biggest enemy. Then four Jewish children beg for help, and her small act of courage leads her into terrible danger.

Ursula is assigned to guard prisoners and makes one impulsive choice that could get her killed, she lets a British airman escape. When he returns wounded, conscience matters more than the rules.

Stan comes home from war bitter, wounded, and certain love is over for him. Agnieska, a survivor of Nazi camps, brings back the possibility of tenderness neither of them expected.

Facing deportation, Margarete survives a bombing and sees a terrible chance to live. To escape the Nazis, she must take the identity of a dead girl from the world she hates.

With Berlin in ruins and the Cold War taking shape, Werner Böhm returns from Moscow convinced he can help build a better Germany. Then love and Stalinist pressure force him to choose between ideology and conscience.

Sabine wants no part in politics until the Gestapo uses her husband's life against her. Forced to spy on a resistance network she begins to admire, she must choose between loyalty and betrayal.

Lotte is undercover in Warsaw, spying for the British while the city edges toward uprising. When family ties, forbidden love, and divided loyalties collide, every choice threatens to end in bloodshed.

Zara's attempt to escape Soviet control goes badly wrong just as the Berlin Airlift begins. When her path crosses with an American pilot, both are pulled into a dangerous mission involving kidnappings, secrets, and survival.

The Berlin blockade turns survival into a daily gamble for Bruni and those around her. As the airlift struggles against weather, politics, and hunger, private lives become tangled with a city's fight to stay free.

Richard Klausen has learned to obey orders just to stay alive in Hitler's army. Then he meets a woman in the Polish resistance, and following his conscience becomes far more dangerous than fighting.

Peter is trapped in a Nazi prison camp when an escape chance finally appears. Freedom means leaving his badly wounded brother behind, and that choice may haunt everyone who loves him.

When a bombed house leaves Margarete Rosenbaum mistaken for a Nazi officer's daughter, she seizes the chance to survive. But living under a stolen identity means trusting the wrong people and hiding every trace of who she is.

The war may be over, but Richard and Katrina are still on the wrong side of old hatreds. Hiding in Poland is no real safety, so they set out on a desperate journey to stay together.

Johann Hauser thinks surrender will end his nightmare, but Soviet captivity opens a harsher chapter. Hunger, cold, and exhaustion replace battle as he fights for one last thing, a way home.

Now living as Annegret Huber, Margarete hopes to stay quiet and survive the war. Then she discovers the truth about her factory and labor camp, and silence stops feeling possible.

After her fiancé is injured and taken west, Bruni refuses to let divided Berlin keep them apart. She joins a risky smuggling run across the Soviet zone, where every checkpoint could end her future.

Rachel and little Mindel have only each other when the Gestapo sends them to Bergen-Belsen. Separated inside the camp, Rachel clings to one goal, keeping her sister alive long enough to find her again.

Lotte works as a Wehrmacht radio operator in Norway while secretly spying for the British. When her contact is captured, she is forced into a frantic flight across Scandinavia with enemies closing in.

Tom survives the war and searches for Ursula, the woman he left behind in Germany. Finding her is only the start, because peace does not make their forbidden love any easier.

Margarete risks everything to sabotage Nazi work and help Jewish prisoners escape the land she now controls. When her secret is uncovered, the price of resistance becomes terrifyingly personal.

Still hidden behind a false name, Margarete controls an estate tied to Nazi power and forced labor. Every small act of mercy helps prisoners, but each one also brings her closer to exposure.

In the winter of 1945, Emma is torn from her small son as war closes in from both sides. To save her daughter and keep searching for her boy, she must make impossible choices on the road west.

In East Berlin after Stalin's death, Floriane tries to raise her younger sister while working in a chocolate factory. Her growing bond with Soviet officer Vladimir becomes dangerous as protest spreads through the city.

Edith Falkenstein marries into Berlin wealth and believes love will protect her. But as Nazi power grows and her husband Julius is targeted for his Jewish background, safety becomes an illusion.

By 1939, Edith and Julius have lost their comfort, their security, and nearly their chance to flee. She must decide whether protecting him means letting him go or following him into greater danger.

After a failed escape, Edith returns to Berlin and faces the worst, Julius is arrested again. Saving him means standing up in a city where even grief can be treated as defiance.

Edith rejoices when Julius is spared deportation, but Berlin in 1944 offers no real safety. Their stripped-down apartment becomes a shelter for others, and every act of decency carries a cost.

After Austria is annexed, Jewish champion Judith Rosner is hunted for who she is, not what she has achieved. Teaming with a German deserter, she makes a near-impossible bid for Switzerland.

When a Gestapo summons makes staying put impossible, Astrid goes on the run and meets Bärbel in the Alps. With only a smuggler to guide them, snow, fear, and pursuit shadow every step.

Operation Seven offers a wildly risky route out of Berlin, Jewish refugees disguised as German agents. Leonore, Michaela, Knut, and Bernd stake everything on a plan that depends on perfect performance.

Twelve-year-old Holger is hiding his younger siblings after their parents are deported. With Countess Sophie and a resistance network trying to move them to safety, every shelter feels temporary.

In 1947, Roxi thinks she is finally building a life after the war. Then evidence surfaces that the man who ruined her family survived, and her hunt for justice turns deadly.

Sophie learns the theater director she loves is alive in Theresienstadt, but only barely protected. To reach him, she must build an escape plan out of smugglers, lies, and nerve.

Roxy Popa refuses to be broken after Nazi persecution destroys her Sinti family and way of life. Escape, recapture, and a fragile bond with grieving Marek drive her toward one last hope, the train station.