Birgit's Consequences

 

In his historically-based novel, Birgit's Consequences novelist  GM Gaudio explores what happened to the children of Hitler's Lebensborn experiment, in an attempt to create a master race of superior beings.

Hitler died and the Second World War ended, but what of the children of his experiment? What of the women who were used and abused for the evil programme? What happened to them?

The story begins for the reader in the Calabrian Mountains in the 1970s. We meet with Andreas Kuhlemann who is battling to find a place in the world, a place which he could call home.

He was born in occupied Norway to a Norwegian receptionist and a German army officer. At the war's end he was taken to Germany, to the home town of his father.

Eventually he was adopted by an Italian man who worked on the railways. As a result Andreas was always moving, never feeling at home, always feeling lost.

However, unknown to Andreas he had a counterpart in Lorenzo Benedetta, a man who has spent four tiring, weary decades trying to seek out some form of redemption. He has suffered many setbacks, but is determined to attain his aim, to reach his conclusion. 

But what happens when his dreadful crime is discovered and he is brought before a court of law to answer for what he did?

As a result the stories of both men are brought to a conclusion. 

But the conclusion is one that reveals a death and that one of them was a monster. But which one?

It is a stunning debut novel which shows that the wickedness evil men perpetrate lives on for many decades.

It is published by Matador at £10.00.