Api's Berlin diaries : my quest to understand my grandfather's Nazi past / Gabrielle Robinson.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : She Writes Press, 2020.Description: 325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1647420032
- 9781647420031
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Main Library | NonFiction | 940.5482 R661 | Available | 33111010450043 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A haunting personal story of Berlin at the end of the Third Reich--and an unflinching investigation into a family's Nazi past
When Gabrielle Robinson found her grandfather's Berlin diaries, hidden behind books in her mother's Vienna apartment, she made a shocking discovery--her beloved Api had been a Nazi.
The entries record his daily struggle to survive in a Berlin that was 90% destroyed. Near collapse himself Api, a doctor, tried to help the wounded and dying in nightmarish medical cellars without cots, water or light. The dead were stacked in the rubble outside.
Searching to understand why her grandfather had joined the Nazi party, Robinson retraces his steps in the Berlin of the 21st century. She reflects on German guilt, political responsibility, and facing the past. But she also remembers Api, who had given her a loving home in those cold and hungry post-war years.
"This a must read for anyone interested in the German experience during WWII"
--Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"After her mother's death, Gabrielle Robinson found two diaries her grandfather had kept while serving as doctor during the fall of Berlin 1945. He recorded his daily struggle to survive in the ruined city where little could be done for the wounded without water, light, and medications. But then the diaries revealed something that hit Robinson like a punch to the gut: Api, her beloved grandfather, had been a Nazi. Robinson juxtaposes her grandfather's harrowing account with her memories of his loving protection after the war and raises disturbing questions about the political responsibility we all carry as individuals. Moving and provocative, Api's Berlin Diaries offers a firsthand and personal perspective on the far-reaching aftershocks of the Third Reich"--Amazon.com.