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Sex and The Nazis

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What happens when a dictatorship attempts to control not only nations, but also love, marriage, reproduction, sexuality, and the human body Sex and the Nazis is a sweeping historical novel blending documented history with fictional characters and reconstructed personal stories set during the rise, rule, and aftermath of Nazi Germany.Through Anna Weiss, the daughter of a German soldier, the novel explores the Nazi regime's attempts to regulate intimate life through racial ideology, marriage policies, reproductive goals, persecution, military occupation, and sexual exploitation.The story follows German soldiers and foreign women whose lives become entangled amid war and occupation-relationships shaped by affection, fear, coercion, survival, unequal power, and sometimes genuine love. Alongside fictional narratives, the novel draws on historical realities concerning Nazi racial laws, the treatment of women in occupied territories, forced prostitution, sexual violence, and the regime's obsession with controlling reproduction and racial identity.As Anna investigates her father's wartime diary, she encounters Marta, a Polish survivor; Claire, a French survivor; Janina, a Polish woman caught in a dangerous relationship with a German soldier; and Friedrich Adler, a fictional German soldier whose growing doubts expose the conflict between individual conscience and ideological obedience.Decades later, Anna's daughter and granddaughter inherit the archive, discovering that the consequences of the Nazi era did not end with the war. Photographs, letters, testimonies, and unanswered questions pass from one generation to another.At its heart, Sex and the Nazis asks difficult questions: Can intimacy survive under dictatorship Where does affection end and coercion begin How does a state turn sexuality into an instrument of racial policy Why did some people obey while others resisted And what responsibility do later generations have toward the memories of the past Sex and the Nazis is ultimately a story about sexuality and power, war and survival, memory and responsibility-and the human lives hidden behind history's largest numbers. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798192740880

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