She’s further stunned to find that she herself has been an object of experimentation, and she has a family she never knew of.Īmerican journalist Jason Young’s reports have been censored by the authorities before leaving the country.
She’s not good with children and doesn’t know how she would ever get her out, much less what to do with her afterward.īut as Rachel checks further into her father’s research, she finds that eugenics goes far beyond the prevention of disease, and the German scientists are running experiments on a wide variety people whom they deem imperfect in some way. Kristine begs Rachel to take Amelie away before something terrible happens to her. Furthermore, Kristine is afraid for the life of her daughter, Amelie, who is deaf and thereby a blight on Gerhardt’s Aryan bloodline. Kristine is cowed by her controlling husband, SS officer Gerhardt Schlick. But instead of a joyful reunion, Rachel is alarmed at the changes. While in Germany, Rachel plans to meet with an old friend, Kristine. He shares his work with German scientists who want to apply eugenics much more broadly.
Motivated by a desire to eradicate tuberculosis, he argues for sterilization of those who might spread the disease. Kramer, has done extensive work in the field of genetics, specifically eugenics. But she agrees to accompany him for one last trip together to Germany in 1939. In the novel Saving Amelie by Cathy Gohlke, American Rachel Kramer’s dreams for her life do not match her father’s, so she is eager to get away and start her own life.
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