Victor Klemperer Journal (non-official)
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Aus Victor Klemperers Tagebüchern 1933 - 1945. Sie dokumentieren Aufstieg und Untergang des Faschismus in Deutschland aus der persönlichen Perspektive Klemperers (gelbe Kacheln 🟨). Ergänzt um relevante politische Ereignisse dieser Zeit (blaue Kacheln 🟦).
![Tagebucheintrag vom 30. September 1943
Nach dem Nachtdienst vier Stunden Tagschlaf, vorher Abwasch, nachher Abwasch und Kohlrabi geputzt, zwei Mahlzeiten - was bleibt für Tage-
buch und Hitler [Anm: »Mein Kampf«]? Ich bin wohl unbescheiden; ich sehe in der Fabrik, wie Arbeit und Tagesinhalt für Millionen Menschen
aus Schaufeln, Schleppen, Kehren besteht, selbst der gelernte Arbeiter ist hundertmal auf wenige Handgriffe beschränkt, und den Juden, die aus
gehobenen Berufen kommen, ist dieses Proletarierdasein längst (seit mindestens drei, vier Jahren) Selbstverständlichkeit. Sie durchschlafen
gemütsruhig den Tag, wenn sie nachts in der Fabrik gewesen, sie haben alle, alle geistigen Interessen aufgegeben.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufnjx64i4xylrakp6232l4eu/bafkreibeddwsahtm2x2e6j63knzogrpsvlcylof25tuhl3o5psvwunducy)
![Diary entry on September 30, 1943
After the night shift four hours of daytime sleep, washing up beforehand, washing up afterward, and kohlrabi to clean, two meals - what is left for diary and Hitler [note: Mein Kampf]? I am presumptuous no doubt; in the factory I see how work and daily life for millions of people consists of shoveling, hauling, sweeping; even the skilled worker is restricted to a few manual movements a hundred times over, and for the Jews, who come from higher professions, this proletarian existence has long ago (for at least three or four years) become taken for granted. If they have been in the factory at night, they calmly sleep through the day; they have given up all, all intellectual interests.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufnjx64i4xylrakp6232l4eu/bafkreiht6yh6yophiqnx4u2f27uvmc532yxkxm4e2flnblasi6wofjz7yy)
![Diary entry on September 28, 1943
In place of the Frankfurter Zeitung, which ceased publication, Lewinsky is subscribing to the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung [DAZ ] and brought a couple of copies with him. It contains exactly the same commentaries on the situation as the Dresdener Zeitung, in a little more detail, accommodating its style to the regular readership aristocracy, senior civil servants, ecclesiastics - but literally identical in all arguments and catchwords and slogans. Quite obviously, every day a central office issues the official blurb, which all newspaper authors have to print or paraphrase. Just as Goebbels once said with delight of marching Hitler Youth: The same face everywhere. That, too, is part of the already frequently emphasized poverty of the LTI.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufnjx64i4xylrakp6232l4eu/bafkreibxyjveuxzrdwyhucxn5divjjnhgscwyvn2lwervmp3isgmmcbcuq)
![Tagebucheintrag vom 5. September 1942
Die Leute von Thamm [Anm .: Umzugsfirma], sonst freundlich und heiter, waren von Anfang an mürrisch und zänkisch - aber nicht etwa gegen uns. Sie waren vier und hätten wegen des Flügels sechs sein sollen, sie waren nicht aufeinander eingespielt, stritten und beschimpften sich um jeden Handgriff. Jedes Stück war ihnen zu schwer. »Aber der Schrank war doch das vorige Mal genauso vollgepackt.« »Ja, damals! Aber jetzt. - Wo sollen wir Kraft hernehmen, wir haben nichts im Leibe!« Immer wieder dies: »Wir haben nicht genug zu essen ... Bloß Schwer-, nicht
Schwerstarbeiterzulage ... aber arbeiten immerzu ... Für den Arbeiter sorgen die sowenig wie die vorigen ... «](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufnjx64i4xylrakp6232l4eu/bafkreibglhw5424bjd7sssykfxexy5jumxvivsh3qkzqcb6fi3dfh7k77u)
![Diary entry on September 5, 1942
The people from Thamm [note: moving company], usually so friendly and cheerful, were from the start surly and bad-tempered - but not that it was directed against us. They were four and should have been six because of the grand piano. They were not a team; argued and shouted at one another about every movement. Every piece was too heavy for them. "But the wardrobe was just as full of things the last time." - "Yes, then!
But now. - Where should we get the strength, we've got nothing inside us!" Again and again this: "We don't get enough to eat ... only a laborer's allowance, but not a heavy laborer's allowance ... but we work all the time ... they do as little for the workers as the previous lot."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufnjx64i4xylrakp6232l4eu/bafkreiauuz5apgdjsqeb2fyb5lpnyi64uk2k36ohiq42jzuuq7pqa6yrqu)
![Diary entry on August 28, 1944
This morning Waldmann was supposed to repair one of our roller blinds. (Troublesome business, procuring the necessary cord: written confirmation from the landlord is required.) At the last moment: impossible, he [Waldmann] has to fetch a corpse. (That is his office, together with Jacobi.) At once there was the fearful rumor, someone will
have met his death in the police prison. It then, however, turned out to be the Jewish wife of an Aryan in Niedersedlitz. The corpse was brought
back in a handcart - for Jews there is no proper vehicle for conveying corpses.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufnjx64i4xylrakp6232l4eu/bafkreid2apanicepaftkipvsri6jyiu4zsdy43e6v6azo4caw7nwqbvgn4)
