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The Sunflower House

Adriana Allegri

Start date: April 1, 2025

Finish date: April 30, 2025

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Jan 11, 2025 DeAnn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: library-reads, 2025

4.5 historical stars

With yet another spin on historical WWII material, this one explores the houses that the Nazis set up during WWII to churn out more "pure" babies. Some women were sent here by their families and spouses, and others were recruited. This was all called the Lebensborn program and had a dark underbelly, as many Nazi programs turned out to have upon further research. Many of the babies were sent out to be adopted, and others disappeared.

Our main character here, Allina, landed at o ...more

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Jan 09, 2025 鈽甂补谤别苍 rated it really liked it

Shelves: war-wwii, audible, audio, read-in-2025, 3000-2025, comp-copy-from-publisher, netgalley, historical-fiction, debut

4.5 stars. A must read for readers of WWII historical fiction. This focuses on a young woman torn from her family, ending up in the Lebensborn Program. Not as one of the women living in that baby factory to birth Arian babies for the appeasement of Hitler and Himmler, but as a nurse taking care of the newborns. She and a love interest / SS officer attempt to help the older children who were never adopted because of some imperfection or another. It's obvious that the older those children got, the ...more

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Apr 11, 2025 Lynn G. rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, world-war-2, about-children, bound-together-member-s-selections, kindle-books, war, germany, 20th-century, debut-novel

While I have read about the Lebensborn program previously, The Sunflower House made a bigger impression on me than other books. The author, Adriana Allegri, filled the story with fully three-dimensional characters, situations, and plot lines that enabled me to feel fully immersed in the story. I could picture Karl, Allaina, Rilla, Berta, and others as though they were in the room with me. There was appropriate tensions created, sad moments, small and meaningful victories over evil. ...more

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Nov 12, 2024 Fran Lewis rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2024, fiction, womens-stories, women-authors, war, historical-fiction, romance, netgalley

TH脡 SUNFLOWER HOUSE by Adriana Allegri

Family Secrets come to light as a young woman fights to save herself, and others, in a Nazi run baby factory 鈥� a real life handmaid鈥榮 tale- during World War II.

This is a meticulously research historical novel that uncovers an notorious Lebensborn program of Nazi Germany .

Women of PURE blood stated these homes for the sole purpose of perpetuating the area population giving birth to thousands of babies who were adopted out to good Nazi families.

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