Language:
German
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Studia nad Faszyzmem i Zbrodniami Hitlerowskimi
Angaben zur Quelle:
20 (1997) 167-187
Keywords:
Klepper, Jochen,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
Abstract:
On the basis of Klepper's diaries (covering the period 1932-42, published in 1956), analyzes his ambivalence toward Nazism. He was torn between his Prussian patriotism, his deep Christian faith, and his personal experience of exclusion and persecution as the husband of a Jewish wife and stepfather of her two Jewish daughters. The diary is a record of everyday life in Nazi Germany and of the increasingly harsh measures against Jews and mixed families, and finally the fear of deportation and death. Klepper was able to send one daughter abroad; but when his efforts to save the other, including appeals to Frick and Eichmann, failed, he committed suicide together with her and his wife - the ultimate act of refusal.
Note:
On the attitude of the Prussian Protestant writer Jochen Klepper (whose wife was Jewish) towards the Third Reich as reflected in his diaries, 1932-1942.
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