Deutsche Kaiserallee

Deutsche Kaiserallee was renamed to Mendelssohnallee in 1945 (Source: Stadtwiki Dresden)

  • 1943, April 25, Easter Sunday morning – He, Professor Conradi, the half-blind painter Gimpel, whose acquaintance I had already made while shoveling snow, and who now takes my arm on the way home—he lives on Deutsche Kaiserallee—lastly a humpbacked and bad-tempered pharmacist called Bergmann, represent the professions; the other people had shops or were company employees. **p217
  • 1943, May 1, Saturday morning – I had fleetingly made Gimpel’s acquaintance while shoveling snow last year, met him again at Schluter. He asked me to give him my arm in the darkness on the way home—he lived in Deutsche Kaiserallee. So we walked there together twice. He invited Eva and myself to look at his paintings. Even more than a landscape painter he was a
Mendelssohnallee 10 (Deutsche Kaiser Allee 18, 1905
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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