Api’s Berlin Diaries

When Gabrielle Robinson found her grandfather’s Berlin diaries, she made a shocking discovery—her beloved Api had been a Nazi.

The diaries record Api’s daily struggle in a Berlin that was 90% destroyed while he was trying to help the wounded in nightmarish medical cellars without water or light. The dead were stacked in the rubble outside.

Searching to understand why Api had joined the Nazi party, Gabrielle reflects on German guilt, political responsibility, and confronting the past. Throughout she also remembers Api who had given her a loving home in those cold and hungry post-war years.


Trailer for Api's Diary

Reichstag 1945

Reichstag 1945

Api making house calls with Gabrielle in back, Suderburg 1946

Pages from Api's diary

 

Berlin 1945

Api and Gabrielle, 1949

Api and Gabrielle, 1949