I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer

Author:Victor Klemperer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Social Science, Jewish Studies, Holocaust, Historical, Biography & Autobiography, History
ISBN: 9780399589072
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2016-02-17T05:00:00+00:00

October 9, Saturday afternoon

For a good week now we have been plagued by every kind of influenza symptom. Eva is extremely handicapped and worn down by lumbago, I myself have been more badly troubled by sniffles, coughing and probably also a temperature than for many years; for a couple of days I was properly ill and completely incapable of work, today I still feel wretched enough, but at least I can actually exist again and have until now, five o’clock, read from the life story of Fanny Lewald at Eva’s bedside. A big step forward because during the last few days I was so hoarse that reading aloud was impossible.

We repeatedly got through the evenings by going to the cinema. The most interesting things were the support programs, the Nürnberg Party Rally and Mussolini’s visit—various excerpts from all of that, but above all the whole of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s speeches on the Maifeld. Mussolini’s gesticulation and facial expressions and his broken, barely comprehensible German were very amusing. The spectacular staging was terrific—but in the end it is exactly the same staging again and again: militarized masses and goose-stepping and war games in support of peace and laying wreaths. In the long run the effect is deadening—provided one is not aroused by it.

[…]

Reka, the most reputable, the best department store in Dresden, was Aryanized last year or the year before. Now it is advertising its “Anniversary Sale: 25 Years.” At the same time a notice has been painted on all the entrances: “Aryan Store.”

[…]

It goes without saying that I am spending my birthday in fairly subdued fashion.

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