Wings Over Barbed Wire: A Holocaust Novel of Love and Resistance Under Paragraph 175

Berlin, 1939. Tailor Karl Weber loves a painter named Lukas―a love that the Nazi state has declared a crime under Paragraph 175. When the Gestapo arrests him and sends him to Sachsenhausen, Karl is stripped of everything: his name, his work, his future, and the man he loves.The camp takes everything. But it cannot take the sparrow. She comes each morning, landing on his bunk-a tiny brown creature in a world of grey. She asks for nothing but a crumb, and gives back something Karl thought he'd lost forever: the feeling that he is still alive, still human, still capable of caring.Around him, other men begin to notice. A criminal. A political dissident. A boy too young to be there. They share bread, they share stories, they protect the small nest hidden behind the wall. In a place designed to destroy everything, they build something fragile and precious.Wings Over Barbed Wire is a story about love and survival, about the bonds that carry us through the darkest hours, and about the small, stubborn creatures-sparrows, kindnesses, moments of hope-that remind us what it means to be human.Wings Over Barbed Wire is a story about love and survival, about the bonds that carry us through the darkest hours, and about the small, stubborn creatures-sparrows, kindnesses, moments of hope-that remind us what it means to be human.