Summary
Daša Drndić: Sonnenschein
Documentary novel
Daša Drndić's documentary novel cannot be compared to any of the books published so far about the dark times of Nazism. Dry data, concise dialogues and expressive characters shed unusual light on previously unnoticed questions about ambiguous neutrality or the procedure for financing the transport of prisoners to death camps. The factography in the novel Sonnenschein reminds of the collection of evidence in the process against evil and painfully emphasizes the drama of heroes whose lives are only the result of the whims of history.
Sonnenschein, however, is above all a daring gesture by the author that reveals the bitter truth about the origin of hundreds of thousands of children from the vortex of war. It is a striking story of Himmler's infernal plan - of the society of Lebensborn, the "Source of Life" - which, as the nest of the idea of "Mein Kampf", became the source of suffering of a generation with a false identity.
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