Author Gabrielle Robinson will give a presentation of her most recent book, “The Reluctant Nazi,” at 6:30 p.m. Sunday.  The event will be held at the Buchanan Art Center in partnership with the Buchanan American Legion, 117 W. Front St. in Buchanan.

Sixty years after the end of World War II, Gabrielle Robinson found two diaries her grandfather had kept between April and October 1945 when he served as a military doctor in Berlin, a stone’s throw from the Reichstag. The diaries, however, not only revealed the horrors of the bombing and the fall of Berlin, they also revealed her beloved grandfather had been a Nazi. In “The Reluctant Nazi,” Robinson shares her grandfather’s harrowing account of what it was like to live in Berlin as Hitler’s Reich collapsed, but also deals with her own reaction to his party membership and raises disturbing questions about political responsibility and the far-reaching aftershocks of the Second World War.  In this moving and provocative book, Robinson offers a first-hand and personal perspective on the history of that time and her own inconvenient past.