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Cradles of the Reich

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Cradles of the Reich

By: Jennifer Coburn
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
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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 forty-four-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 us intimately inside the Lebensborn Society maternity homes that actually existed in several countries during World War II, where thousands of “racially fit” babies were bred and taken from their mothers to be raised as part of the new Germany. But it proves that in a dark period of history, the connections women forge can carry us through, even driving us to heroism we didn’t know we had within us.

©2022 Jennifer Coburn (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
20th Century Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Women's Fiction Biography
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It was fairly interesting I've read this account previously astonishing how low events sank during that time so for me fairly unoriginal but readable Narration was adequate

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