From her Q & A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: As you worked on the book, what surprised you most about [Edith Hahn Beer's] story?--Marshal Zeringue
A: I had not realized what a phenomenally sexist regime the Nazis were. I realized Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale had taken inspiration from this regime. The oppression of women, the horrible program where women were forced to have babies with men who were racially pure…
I did not realize the Nazis had created a situation in which most German men [of a certain age] were at the front, and the country was filled with slave laborers [from other countries]…her description of the home front was...[read on]