- 1944, October 9, Monday morning after nine o’clock – Very curious: My first frontline birthday (because during the First World War I was safely at home on every October 9). All kinds of news and rumors mounted up about the attack the day before yesterday. From the Stühlers, the Cohns, from Eva, who had been to visit Frau Winde and gone home via Postplatz; she had seen a crater in Annenstrasse and damaged houses. There are said to be quite a large number of dead, who were laid out in Freiberger Platz (cordoned off). [. . . ] **p367
- 1944, October 27, Friday morning – Yesterday morning to the labor exchange in Matemistrasse. They wanted my employment book to make a correction. It was a good thing I went myself instead of sending it in, because there—by the way: courteous treatment—they were not aware that I am permanently released from labor duty. My route (with a few diversions) took me by way of the bombed district (Queckbrunnen, Freiberger Platz). The picture was the same as recently in Wettiner Strasse. Everywhere the destruction was just as it had been on the first day. How must things look in towns that have been seriously hit? **p372
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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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