- 1942, April 19, Sunday – I had to go to the Investigation Department, which occupies a floor of a tenement block in Moczinskystrasse, corner of Lindengasse. Chief Customs Inspector Otto, who questioned me and then dictated the statement to a typist, was uncommonly nice and at pains to allow me to display myself to the all-important currency department in all my innocence. [ . . . ] Interesting to me was the man’s complete cluelessness with respect to the miseries of the Jews. “It isn’t far for you to come. Professor, you take the tram from Wasaplatz to Georgsplatz . . . Oh, you are not allowed to take the tram?” **p44
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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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