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Api’s Berlin Diaries: My Quest to Understand My Grandfather’s Nazi Past
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About Api’s Berlin Diaries: My Quest To Understand My
Product Description “This is not a book I will forget any time soon.” ―Story Circle Book Reviews 2021 Nautilus Book Awards: Memoir & Personal Journey, Silver Winner 2021 Eric Hoffer Awards: Finalist Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal Finalist 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist Nonfiction Authors Association: Bronze Moving and provocative, Api’s Berlin Diaries offers a personal perspective on the fall of Berlin 1945 and the far-reaching aftershocks of the Third Reich. After her mother’s death, Robinson was thrilled to find her beloved grandfather’s war diaries―only to discover that he had been a Nazi. The award-winning memoir shows Api, a doctor in Berlin, desperately trying to help the wounded in cellars without water or light. He himself was reduced to anxiety and despair, the daily diary his main refuge. As Robinson retraces Api’s steps half a century later, she tries to come up with answers to why he joined the Nazi party while also remembering the happiest years of her childhood with him. For readers of today this moving memoir provides a timely reminder that we all need to reckon with our countries’ pasts. This is a must read for anyone interested in the German experience during WWII. Review 2021 Nautilus Book Awards: Memoir & Personal Journey, Silver Winner 2021 Eric Hoffer Awards: Finalist Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal Finalist Bronze Nonfiction Authors Association “As a record of post-war tribulation, Api’s Berlin Diaries is a poignant social history; as a search for an elusive, multifaceted grandfather, it’s a fascinating labyrinth.” ― Foreword Reviews, 5/5 stars “ Api’s Berlin Diaries is Gabrielle Robinson’s love letter to her German grandfather, based on the diary he kept at the end of World War II while he was separated from his family. It is also a reckoning with her grandfather’s complicated history as a member of the Nazi party, and offers compelling insights into Nazi Germany and the end of the Third Reich. Robinson’s honesty, courage, and intelligence are crucial in coming to grips with questions of individual responsibility and collective guilt.” ―Helen Fremont, author of The Escape Artist and After Long Silence “A fascinating and admirably honest account of a woman’s journey to reconcile her love for her grandfather with his membership of the Nazi party . . . This is a must-read for anyone interested in the German experience during WWII.” ―Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped “Robinson has written a riveting account of the journey of discovery she made in order to come to terms with a much-loved grandfather, whom she discovered long after his death to have been a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party.” ―Giles MacDonogh, British historian and author of After the Reich “Robinson’s account of the war years, and living in bombed out ruins, are riveting . . . The book adds to our slowly accumulating knowledge of that the war looked like from ‘the other side’ and takes its place beside books like Sebalds’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Beevor’s The Fall of Berlin 1945.” ―Notre Dame Review “Robinson's story brings up questions in my own life. What would I do if I were confronted with a situation that is obviously wrong and possibly evil? How would I feel about a member of my own family who played such a questionable role during such a dark period of history? I don’t have an answer to these questions. I have compassion for Gabrielle Robinson’s struggle to understand her grandfather’s life. This is not a book I will forget any time soon. The story and the questions stay with me.” ―Story Circle Book Reviews “What makes the memoir a good read is the honesty of the author when it comes to sharing the story of her grandfather and her physical shock at finding out he was a member of the Nazi party. This memoir is a good way of giving readers information about the German people’s experiences during World War II, and the author’s attempt to understand her grandfather and his life
