Cradles of the Reich -- Jennifer Coburn, Hardcover

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 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.

Author: Jennifer Coburn
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 10/01/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781728250748

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022