Ok here's the deal: ask any Jew how many Holocaust books we have with swastikas on the cover. It's a lot. Fiction and non fiction. But they're not romance novels. The issue at hand is the genre and whether or not it has a Jew and Nazi falling in love.
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If the book is about a spy who falls in love with a British officer while she's also forced to be squired around by a Nazi who she's spying on, it should make that obvious in the marketing, the cover, the blurb. Anywhere, really. Because there's lots of books like that.
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As for the issues with Nazi/Jewish romance, I hate that we have to say this over and over: it's not a romance if the Nazi is also murdering all your friends and family and could murder you if he decided to. ...

Nazi romances where one falls for an Aryan-looking Jewish girl only to discover "she's so pretty...Jews are human!" and have a redemption arc. No thank you. Nazis were evil and chose evil. Read THE GOOD OLD DAYS please. Anne Frank's Diary is not enough Holocaust reading.

Then there's the genre where Jewish girl falls in love with Nazi and he rescues her in the concentration camp and after the war she finds Jesus and they marry. Saving one girl does not make a Nazi righteous if he's also pulling the switch for the zyclon b. ...

Books where a Nazi has one good moment are meant to he complicated. "I don't know why he pulled me from the line that day, but it saved my life" is common in survivor stories and survivors usually thank God or luck, not the Nazi. ...

Anyway this one got resolved quickly and the publisher realized what was going on. If you have a Nazi story, have a Jew look at your marketing materials for any possible confusion. We promise we want to help. A quick DM to a few Jewish publishing folks. ...

We are not the book police and nobody is being canceled. We just want people to stop saying Nazis were just following orders and were swept up in the zeitgeist. And w/ so many people who admit their only Holocaust knowledge is Anne Frank, we want our stories told accurately. ...

I want to end with a book rec list but I'm tired and the list is too long and never ends. So if anyone wants to rec books, go for it. And if you're so arrogant to think reading Anne Frank and watching some survivor interviews is enough, please don't write about us.

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