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    The Reluctant Nazi: Searching for My Grandfather

    By Gabrielle Robinson

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    After her father, a fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe, was killed during a mission over the south coast of England, Gabrielle Robinson found a loving home with her grandparents. Her grandfather, known to her as Api, was a doctor: a kind, gentle man who taught her Latin and built kites with her. Fifty years after his death, Gabrielle discovered a diary that Api had kept in 1945 when he worked in overcrowded medical cellars a stone’s throw from the Reichstag in Berlin. The diary not only revealed the horrors of the fall of Berlin, it also revealed that Api had been a Nazi. In The Reluctant Nazi Gabrielle shares her grandfather’s harrowing account of what it was like to live in Berlin as Hitler’s Reich collapsed – the bombing, the hunger and homelessness, and later the threat of retribution from the occupiers. She follows his day-by-day struggle to help the sick and dying, to survive himself and shake off the stigma of being a Nazi Party member. Alongside this, Gabrielle deals with her own reaction to Api’s Party membership, raising disturbing questions about political responsibility and the far-reaching aftershocks of the Second World War. In this moving and provocative book, Gabrielle offers a first-hand and personal perspective on the history of that time and her own inconvenient past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateNov 30, 2011
    ISBN9780752478432
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    Gabrielle Robinson

    Gabrielle Robinson is a retired English professor and author of several books on local history as well as a memoir. She was awarded the keys of the city of South Bend and a Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana's highest honor. Gabrielle was born in Berlin, received her PhD from the University of London, her MA from Columbia University and her BA from the University of Illinois. She has worked at universities in both the United States and Europe.

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