Südhöhe

  • February 15, Sunday morning  –  We shouldered shovel and other tools and first marched to the “Little Toll House.” There a delivery van was struggling at the entry to the Südhöhe road. We got it free, widened the roadway. As I was shoveling here, I was aware of my heart. Then we marched along Innsbrucker Strasse almost as far as Nothnitz Manor near Bannewitz […], opposite it a shed, where we had our morning break, facing Dresden, and a few hundred yards from Kaitz […]. How often have I gone driving there, at the wheel of my own car. Now . . . **p14
  • 1942, March 3, Tuesday evening – Yesterday a considerable thaw, morning and midday breaks in a little old house in Altzschertnitz; from there we cleared Munzmeisterstrasse as far as the Südhöhe road. Then a long walk down to Mockritz, to Gostritz, worked on a road running toward Nothnitz-Bannewitz across a deeply cut stream. Hobbled home very painfully on damaged feet. **p22
  • 1942, June 2, Tuesday toward evening – On Sunday evening, after I had sat at home for 48 hours, short walk to Südhöhe, Toll House. Everything in bloom. The last time I was there, had to fight my way uphill in the cold, against a biting wind, to shovel snow. Then we still had enough to eat, then we had not yet been beaten and spat upon by the Gestapo. **p64
  • 1942, August 7, Friday morning – On Tuesday and Wednesday evening, after sitting down all day, I walked to the Südhöhe. View of Borsberg and the Saxon Switzerland, view of the towers of the city, laden fruit trees, on one a scarecrow in the shape of a giant bird of prey, fields — it was like a little excursion, it was a complete rarity and exception. Eva said almost enviously: “
Südhöhe 29, 1939
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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