![]() ![]() What’s more, as the story comes to its shocking conclusion, we see many characters excusing their grim actions with the simple idea that they were ‘just following instructions’ an idea that was often heard after World War Two. ![]() ![]() The parallels are portrayed by the author through the colour coded tier systems, immigration restrictions and the colour coded armbands used in the state schools which represent the classification systems used in Nazi Concentration Camps to show groups such as people from LGBTQIA+ community, specific religions such as Jews and Jehovah’s Witnesses, travellers, and other ‘non-conformists’. Through stories told by Elena’s Oma, who grew up in Nazi Germany, and through Elena’s own journey to rescue her daughter, the reader soon learns more and more about the similarities in this fictional world to those of the American Eugenics Movement and Nazi Germany. ![]() This terrifyingly possible novel by Christina Dalcher is a work of fiction, however, the themes and ideas highlighted in this work run parallel with the early movement of American Eugenics which strived to improve the genetic quality of the American population, and the later similar movements in Nazi Germany. ![]()
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