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Cradles of the Reich
- Author
- Jennifer Coburn
- Narrator
- Natasha Soudek
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 11 October 2022
- Run Time
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“The Handmaid’s Tale meets WWII in Cradles of the Reich…Jennifer Coburn’s debut historical novel is adept, unforgettable, and brilliantly unsettling.”
Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author
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“Masterfully delves into the warped underbelly of the Nazis’ Lebensborn program for racial engineering. With grace and a deft hand, Coburn creates indelible female characters that leave us heart torn.”
Sarah McCoy, author of Mustique Island
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“Coburn gives compelling and necessary literary voice to those impacted the most by Adolf Hitler’s haunting and ironically dehumanizing scheme to generate racially pure infants…A World War II story whose lessons should not—must not—be forgotten.”
Susan Meissner, USA Today bestselling author
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“Coburn’s fascinating and incredibly well-researched look at this little-known Nazi breeding program and three women whose lives intersect there…Wonderful historical fiction.”
Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author
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Details
- Author
- Jennifer Coburn
- Narrator
- Natasha Soudek
- Duration
- 9 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 October 2022
- ISBN
- 9798212227810
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master raceAt 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.
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