When the author is five years old, her father, a soldier in the German Wehrmacht, is killed in battle. Daughter of the Enemy recounts how women and children survived the hardships of WWII and postwar Germany, and how a ravaged country succumbed to the silence surrounding the Holocaust. It weaves, from the frayed strands of memory, a fully human accounting of coming to terms with hard truths, finally creating a tender memorial to the father lost in war.