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Fiction featuring Care Experience
Cradles of the Reich
Jennifer Coburn
2022
Cradles of the Reich (2022) by American writer Jennifer Coburn is historical fiction focusing on the Nazi Lebensborn Program.
The novel follows 3 women who meet at one of the Lebensborn maternity homes, Heim Hochland.
Gundi is a member of the resistance & is pregnant, as is Hilde. Irma is a nurse working at Heim Hochland.
Although fictional, Cradles of the Reich takes up the topic of the Lebensborn Program maternity homes, a topic not much covered in literature.
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