- 1943, March 4, Thursday evening – I inquired about Jacobi. He had been suffering from inflammation of the middle ear for some time; there was no place for a Jew in the hospitals here; he was supposed to travel to Berlin and be operated on in the Jewish Hospital there. Yesterday I learned, that at the last moment the Gestapo had refused him permission to travel; instead he was operated on in the Friedrichstadter Hospital and taken home in an ambulance immediately after the operation. **p207
- 1943, March 6, Saturday morning, evening – The Gestapo refused to let him travel to Berlin. Here he was told: There is no single room available, and a Jew is not allowed to lie in a general ward— so the operation is refused. Then Frau Jacobi, the Aryan, insisted on seeing the head surgeon of the Friedrichstadter Hospital and said angrily to him: So you’re going to let my husband die, because he’s a Jew. That must have roused the surgeon’s conscience; he himself argued with the Gestapo on the phone. Result: The operation was permitted, but Jacobi had to be sent home in an ambulance immediately **p208
- 1942, January 16, Tuesday, After eight in the evening – Then we went up to the cellar door again. Smoke in the sky. Werner Lang went through the house onto the square and reported: big clouds of smoke over Friedrichstadt. We heard humming again, more explosions. It went on like that for a good hour before the first all clear sounded. I was upstairs again at a quarter past one, the final all clear did not come until half past.**p393
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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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