{"product_id":"9780752478432","title":"Reluctant Nazi: Searching for My Grandfather","description":"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.","brand":"The History Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121776017648,"sku":"9780752478432","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780752478432_p0.jpg?v=1763639177","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780752478432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}