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I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years QUOTES

I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years QUOTES

1 " National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism. "

― Victor Klemperer , I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years

2 " March 18...[1945]
Brief morning reflection arisen from great love. In fact, the main point after all is that for forty years we have so much loved one another and do love one another; in fact, I am not at all sure at all that all this is going to come to an end. For certain, nothingness--en tant que individual consciousness, and there is the true nothingness--is altogether probable, and anything else highly improbable. But have we not continually experienced, since 1914 and even more since 1933 and with ever greater frequency in recent weeks, the most utterly improbable, the most monstrously fantastic things? Has not what was formerly completely unimaginable to us become commonplace and a matter of course? If I have lived through the persecutions in Dresden, if I have lived through February 13 and these weeks as a refugee--why should I not just as well live (or rather: die) to find the two of us somewhere, Eva and I, with angel wings or in some other droll form? It's not only the word "impossible" that has gone out of circulation, "unimaginable" also has no validity anymore. "

― Victor Klemperer , I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years

3 " Always the same seesaw. The fear that my scribbling could get me put into a concentration camp. The feeling that it is my duty to write, that it is my life’s task, my calling. The feeling of vanitas vanitatum, that my scribbling is worthless. In the end I go on writing anyway, the diary, the Curriculum. "

― Victor Klemperer , I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years