- 1944, December 18, Monday morning – (and later — during the day I shall probably be busy with notes) – Yesterday during her air-raid duty (in the Bohme Fashion House in Waisenhausstrasse) she (Frau Stühler) was again struck by people’s obtuseness (the people—that is the insoluble puzzle): A couple of the staff, not entirely uneducated, were still firmly convinced of Germany’s victory; after it had survived the difficult summer months, it was now making headway again. — So is the propaganda of the press, etc., having an effect after all? But on what percentage of the population? And how far is Saxony, how far is unbombed Dresden, how far is this little group of three or four people characteristic of the whole? Again and again the same impossibility of knowing. **p383
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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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