Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web

In this gripping and impactful narrative, Lynn Nicholas examines how children under the Nazi regime were dehumanized and exploited for the totalitarian state's purposes. The book recounts harrowing stories of euthanasia, eugenic selection, indoctrination, kidnapping, forced "Germanization," mass executions, and slave labor that European children endured at the hands of the Nazis. Nicholas also delves into the struggles of uprooted children as they attempted to find their families after the war. "Cruel World" is a disturbing yet essential work that sheds light on a previously underexplored aspect of World War II history.