- 1942, April 19, Sunday – Interesting to me was the man’s complete cluelessness with respect to the miseries of the Jews. “It isn’t far for you to come. Professor, you take the tram from Wasaplatz to Georgsplatz … Oh, you are not allowed to take the tram?” — During the questioning: “First name?” — “Victor Israel.” — “By which name are you known?” — “Victor.” — “Fraulein, underline ‘Victor.'” What Neumark recently told the Neumanns is of a piece with this civil servant’s cluelessness. **p40
- 1942, May 15, Friday toward evening – Yesterday afternoon to lawyer Neumark, the Jewish “legal adviser” behind Kreuzkirche. At Georgsplatz some packers from Thamm were working. One immediately came toward me holding out his hand. “It is very kind of you to shake my hand” (it is more than kind, it is a dangerous demonstration). “How are you doing?” — “Badly, very badly.” — “Sometime you’ll have to tell me more about it.” He went back to his van. **p52
- 1945, January 25, Thursday evening, 7:30 p.m. – Frau Stuhler often complains about the rampant National Socialism and credulous certainty of victory of her female colleagues in Bohme’s clothes store on Georgsplatz. Today she told us the women were scared, expecting the Russians to march in, arguing whether it was better to stay or to flee—flight is preferred by the majority, the Russians are represented as particularly cruel and murderous. **p396
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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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