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Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn
5.0
Cradles of the Reich by Jennifer Coburn (Kindle)
Read: March 18 - 21 (Book Review Pages: Facebook | Instagram)
My goodness, this book is not only a great read but it's creepy to think about! Of course, I knew the Nazi party was obsessed with the purity of the Aryan people and keeping Germany, well, German. This book is unthinkable and horrifying to believe but it certainly enlightens us to a history that has been hidden away. I give it 5⭐️ happily and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn something new about the WWII time in Germany.
Three women, a nation seduced by a madman and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race.
At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty, she’s secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only eighteen, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official’s child. And Irma, a 44-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose. Based on untold historical events, this novel brings intimately inside the Lebensborn Society maternity homes that actually existed in several counties during WWII, where thousands of “racially fit” babies were bred and taken from their mothers to be raised as part of the new Germany.
This story is a beautiful tribute to a part of history that most don’t know about because it’s one of the numerous things the Nazi party thought the could hide by destroying the record. I love learning new angles on history and this one did not disappoint. Each of the three women narrating the story gives a very unique angle to the story especially Hilde. We don’t often get the view of a German woman nor one who believes with all her being that the Nazis are what’s right for the future. It’s a twisted to read—not mention write about!—but it shows how warped the people were at that time.
This book is actually based on a real maternity home that started out being one German officers' wives. Which sounds fairly normal until, girls were taken in if they were unmarried and pregnant but only after tests shoqed they and the baby would be “racially pure.” They would also take young women in the League of German Girls to be breeding partners for SS Officers in order to have more children for the new Germany. Those who chose not to marry their baby’s father were forced to give up the baby to families who were appropriate, often high ranking officials of the Nazi party. All throughout this story, I kept wondering about the children adopted and whether or not they learned the truth behind their births…I doubt it but I would love to know.
I loved this book and the way it ended left me wanting more about the characters after the war. Did they all survive? Where did they end up in life? Don’t you hate when books leave you hanging with so many questions? I do, but I also love that the characters stay with you for a long time after…
Read: March 18 - 21 (Book Review Pages: Facebook | Instagram)
My goodness, this book is not only a great read but it's creepy to think about! Of course, I knew the Nazi party was obsessed with the purity of the Aryan people and keeping Germany, well, German. This book is unthinkable and horrifying to believe but it certainly enlightens us to a history that has been hidden away. I give it 5⭐️ happily and highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn something new about the WWII time in Germany.
Three women, a nation seduced by a madman and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race.
At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty, she’s secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only eighteen, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official’s child. And Irma, a 44-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose. Based on untold historical events, this novel brings intimately inside the Lebensborn Society maternity homes that actually existed in several counties during WWII, where thousands of “racially fit” babies were bred and taken from their mothers to be raised as part of the new Germany.
This story is a beautiful tribute to a part of history that most don’t know about because it’s one of the numerous things the Nazi party thought the could hide by destroying the record. I love learning new angles on history and this one did not disappoint. Each of the three women narrating the story gives a very unique angle to the story especially Hilde. We don’t often get the view of a German woman nor one who believes with all her being that the Nazis are what’s right for the future. It’s a twisted to read—not mention write about!—but it shows how warped the people were at that time.
This book is actually based on a real maternity home that started out being one German officers' wives. Which sounds fairly normal until, girls were taken in if they were unmarried and pregnant but only after tests shoqed they and the baby would be “racially pure.” They would also take young women in the League of German Girls to be breeding partners for SS Officers in order to have more children for the new Germany. Those who chose not to marry their baby’s father were forced to give up the baby to families who were appropriate, often high ranking officials of the Nazi party. All throughout this story, I kept wondering about the children adopted and whether or not they learned the truth behind their births…I doubt it but I would love to know.
I loved this book and the way it ended left me wanting more about the characters after the war. Did they all survive? Where did they end up in life? Don’t you hate when books leave you hanging with so many questions? I do, but I also love that the characters stay with you for a long time after…