Bismarckstrasse was renamed to Bayrische Straße after 1945. (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden)
- 1942 December 21, Monday midday – Hirschel, who is in Inspector Muller’s good books, was summoned to Bismarckstrasse. “You are the one who should be put in a concentration camp for contravening the ban on instruction; I stood up for you, you will only be imprisoned and not for long; Kahlenberg, the tax secretary, will bring you the documents that have to be signed every day; your Community will be told that you have been taken ill.” — Hirschel then waited in another room to be taken away; in this room he met Eger, who had been arrested the same day. After a while Inspector Weser came in—the animal, who also struck us and spat on us. **p176
- 1943 August 1, Sunday toward evening – Since Saturday afternoon I’m facing death. Card from the Gestapo: “Requested to appear at 16 Bismarckstrasse, third floor. Room 68, at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, August 2, 1943. Concerning: Questioning. With reference to goods in storage. Transport and Warehousing Ltd.” Yesterday I talked to Jacobi and Steinitz: The fact that they give a reason for the “questioning,” as well as Room 68, makes it likely that the danger is small. But nothing can be said for certain… **p250
- 1943 August 2, Monday morning, 11 a.m. – The treatment at Bismarckstrasse was like that two years ago. The caretaker quite impersonal: “Wait there behind the stairs.” A Gestapo fellow by the counter: “Get back there, you swine!” Upstairs in the “more lenient” Room 68, a tall junior officer at a desk fairly impersonal, not aggressive, a small fellow at the door sneering and coarse: “You can’t have been here before, did they forget about you? You have to say loudly and clearly: ‘I am the Jew Victor Israel Klemperer.’ Now go outside and say it…” I do so. **p251
Credit: AltesDresden.de
Source:
- **I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945, Victor Klemperer, Publisher : Modern Library; Illustrated edition
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