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It bothered me just as little that yesterday evening (section meeting) Beste became dean. Despite my participation in the ‘Whispering Committee” I felt inwardly almost unmoved. It was a dirty business, they pulled a fast one on our section. After a great deal of plotting and scheming Reuther was elected for the second time and Gehrig was defeated. Klemperer and his wife Eva will survive and, in the confusion, make their escape.Įarlier, on January 14, a Saturday, in 1933, Victor Klemperer, writes: On that day, Dresden will be destroyed by over 630,000 allied firebombs. His survival was also made possible by the destruction of Dresden on February 13, 1945. Klemperer survived because he was married to a “non-Jewish” German, and because he was a decorated veteran of World War I. The differences in the entries are startling. In 1933, his concerns are professional politics, a lawsuit, and the “domestic misery” of “lighting stoves, dusting, drying dishes.” In 1943, his concerns are how to survive the bureaucratic machinery of the Nazi regime that has as its object the restriction and destruction of Jews. Klemperer wrote diary entries for January 14 in 1933 and again in 1943. He was of Jewish descent but survived to bear witness to this period in diary entries that chronicled daily live under the Nazis. Victor Klemperer lived in the City of Dresden in Nazi Germany.
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