Hitler's "final solution" attempted to strip the German population of Jewish people and others deemed not white. At the same time, the Lebensborn program sought to purify the Aryan gene pool and counter a plunging birthrate through "homes" where "hereditarily healthy" Aryan women conceived, carried, and bore the "racially valuable" children of SS men.
Adriana Allegri's debut novel The Sunflower House (St. Martin's Press, 2024) captures the slow-building horror that unfolded at the Hochland Home in Steinhöring, the first facility in the program.
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