This book analyzes pregnancy and childbearing, sexuality and sexual abuse, not only of Hitler's female victims but also of German women in the Third Reich. Extensively footnoted and documented.

In 1973 Montgomery, Alabama, Civil Townsend, a young black nurse working for the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, grapples with her role when she takes two young girls into her heart and the unthinkable happens, and nothing will ever be the same for any of them.