Chemnitzer Platz was renamed to F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz after 1953 (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden)
- 1942, January 12, Monday – [Stopped by Gestapo] … “Who’s going to win the war? You or us?” — “What do you mean?” — “Well, you pray for our defeat every day, don’t you? — To Yahweh, or whatever it’s called. It’s the Jewish War, isn’t it. Adolf Hitler said so—(shouting theatrically:) And what Adolf Hitler says is true. — Why do you shop at Chemnitzer Platz?” — “We used to live there.” — “You shop there, because they give you more there. That’s going to stop. Tomorrow you’ll register your coupons at the nearest grocer’s…. **p4
- 1942, June 8, early on Monday – Elsa Kreidl still has a store of tobacco; Eva wants to exchange dress fabric for it (as she has already done once with Vogel on Chemnitzer Platz). Eva still clings to nicotine much more desperately than I do, and there is ever less to be had on the female smoker’s card. I have for months been quite resigned to blackberry tea. **p69
Image 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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