In a literary landscape where historical fiction often treads familiar ground, The Lebensborn Experiment, Book I by Joyce Yvette Davis dares to walk a more perilous path. It is a path forged through both the atrocities of Nazi Germany and the long-ignored heroism of Black soldiers in World War II. With her richly layered narrative and searing honesty, Davis delivers a novel that is as urgent as it is unforgettable.
Originally self-published and now re-released by Citi of Books, The Lebensborn Experiment is a work of staggering ambition.
Combining historically grounded research with speculative science fiction, Davis transports readers to the final days of World War II, where a Black American soldier, a Nazi scientist, and a young Polish boy become the central figures in a chilling exploration of race, power, and survival.
The novel opens with Sergeant Kapp Johnson, a member of the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-Black unit fighting in Hitler’s Europe, imprisoned in the dark recesses of a medieval castle. Awaiting execution, Kapp finds himself caught in a larger, even more terrifying experiment orchestrated by Nazi scientist Dr. Josef Weiss. When Kapp is inadvertently injected with an experimental serum meant to manipulate life and death, he gains superhuman strength and a curse of immortality in a world that barely sees him as human.
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