May 19, Tuesday toward evening – Muschel ✟. Eva had already made inquiries last week. Someone has taken over the practice of good Dr. Gross (in Grunaer Strasse), who castrated our tomcat and put down Nickelchen, and last year died of a heart attack, aged fifty at most. We hesitated for days. Today news came that a hand- over order was on its way from the Community, after reception of which I would no longer have the right to dispose of the animal as I saw fit. We hesitated until four o’clock — the man’s surgery hours ended at five. Unless the regime collapsed by the very next morning, we would expose the cat to an even crueler death or put me in even greater danger. **p55
Displayed above Grunaer Strasse/ Pirnaischer Platz
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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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