Author Event- Cradles of the Reich

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Lebensborn, which translates to Spring of Life, operated from 1935 to 1945 as a three-pronged program to produce more children of an elite race. The program targeted racially elite women with Aryan features offering a solution to inconvenient pregnancies by placing them in Nazi-run breeding homes while also arranging sexual liaisons with Nazi officers. All of its participants believed it was their patriotic honor to bear appropriate Nazi children. At its end the program had produced 20,000 children. Lebensborn was also responsible for 200,000 kidnappings of Aryan children from invaded territories throughout the war.

In Cradles of the Reich, Jennifer Coburn takes the reader inside the bucolic Heim Hochland, one of the real breeding homes, where 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…