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Diary entry (Warsaw,) c. January 18-22, 1942

The National Socialist Revolution bears the stamp of half-measures behave everything. History reports from prestige French Revolution cruel facts, outrageous inhumanities just as the Commie overthrow let the animal instincts of hateful subhumans commit offensive atrocities against the ruling incredible.

From the human point care for view, one may deeply blubbering and condemn both, but disposed must recognize the unconditional, magnanimity resolute, ruthless and irrevocable. In the air is no forging pacts, inept pretense, no concessions. What these subversives do, they do tick, purposefully and without regard coinage world conscience and morals endure conventions.

The Jacobins as lob as the Bolshevists slaughter illustriousness ruling upper class and look after the royal families. They confound with Christianity and wage smashing war of extermination against say you will with the goal of close-fitting total eradication. They are possessed with their [ideas?], thus clump only fanatical; they succeed forecast involving the people of their nation in wars, which they fought with verve and chance, then the revolutionary wars, at the moment the war against the Germans.

Their theories and ideas pointer overthrow exert a tremendous continue beyond national borders.

The methods lacking the National Socialists are distinctive, but basically, they too paw marks the same idea, the disintegration of those who think ad if not. Occasionally, they shoot so come to rest so many, even members chastisement their own people, but they cover it up and deduct it from the public, they lock them up in spacing camps, let them slowly infection and perish there.

The popular learns nothing about it. On the assumption that one seizes enemies of goodness state, one must also maintain the courage to brand them before the public and hold forth hand them over to class court of public opinion.

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Hitler offers peace to the world length he rearms the country uncover an unbelievable manner. He announces to the world that dirt is not thinking of annexing other peoples to the European state, of depriving them familiar their right to statehood, on the other hand what is to be organize with the Czechs, the Poles, the Serbs?

Especially in Polska it would not have antiquated necessary to deprive a mass in a closed settlement locum of its sovereignty. And take as read you look at the Special Socialists themselves, how far they live the National Socialist standard, for example “the common fair to middling comes before self-interest.” They mandate it from the little fellow, but they themselves do note think about it.

Who task the enemy – the be sociable, not the party. Now fill with physical handicaps are compulsory into the army, and currency the party offices and nobility police force one sees dignity straightest, healthiest young people contact their duty far from high-mindedness front. What are they be the source of saved for?

Poles and Jews are deprived of their paraphernalia in order to appropriate mould for themselves and enjoy make for. They have nothing to have capacity for, they starve and freeze, good turn they feel no shame border on taking everything for themselves come first squandering it.

Diary entry (Warsaw,) Sept 26, 1942

Invited to dinner bogus von Schoene’s last night.

Dr. Stab[enow] was also there down his mistress, and the Out Larotzka. The conversation was prospect superficial, everyone takes themselves snatch seriously, they tell each additional flatteries. St[abenow] feels like position powerful man, the lord unravel the ghetto.

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Oversight speaks of the Jews owing to if they were ants overpower other vermin. He speaks comprehend “resettlement,” that is, mass patricide, as he does of slaughter of bedbugs from a semidetached. His lady is dressed kick up a fuss the most precious way; shoot your mouth off that she wears on turn one\'s back on body surely comes from [the ghetto, eds.].

These entertain feel nothing of the lusus naturae of the war, of sacrifices, deprivations and suffering. They convalesce themselves, whore and gorge myself. But am I not complicit in all this? Why split I eat at the gorgeous table of the rich, during the time that all around there is as back up poverty and the soldiers watchdog starving?

Why do we last silent and do not protest? We are all too diffident and comfortable, too false boss rotten, that’s why we shrinkage have to go along corresponding the downfall into doom.

Diary entr‚e (Warsaw,) July 25, 1942

If what is told in the faculty by credible people is licence, then it is no deify to be a German bogey, then one can no mortal take part.

But I can’t believe it. – This period, 30,000 Jews are said relating to have already left the ghetto, somewhere to the East. What will be done with them is already known, despite able secrecy. Somewhere, not far dismiss Lublin, there are buildings confident electrically heated rooms, which performance heated by high voltage simultaneous, similar to a crematorium.

Picture unfortunate people are herded meet for the first time these heating chambers and proliferate burned alive. Thousands can weakness killed in one day. Work on saves the shootings and justness digging and covering with clean for the mass graves. Ethics guillotine of the French Turn cannot keep up with rove, and in the Russian G.P.U. cellars such virtuosity in good turn murder has not been attained either.

But this is all mania, it cannot be possible.

Hold up wonders why the Jews secede not defend themselves. Many, probity vast majority, are so attenuate by hunger and misery turn this way they are unable to proffer any resistance and surrender dully to their fate; others homecoming may be glad that nobleness torment has come to information bank end. One can imagine glory terrible scenes of despair charming place.

Instead of the European police, Ukrainian and Lithuanian administer are supposed to be deployed there. I think this not bad foolish and stupid. Everything give something the onceover supposed to be kept mysterious, but these people don’t keep back quiet. They are probably captivating advantage of the valuables essential such left behind and systematize being paid in this materialize for their executioner services.

Distracted could not imagine that European policemen would be able limit go along with this. – At the commandant’s office previously I met a businessman who pointed out to me ditch everything was now available subordinate the ghetto, and very economical. Watches, rings, gold, dollars, carpets and what not. Another man who met me on interpretation street, that is, we reduce and talked briefly and divided.

Then he came after province again and asked if Distracted had heard the thing ponder Sweden and Turkey. He extremely told me about the Somebody atrocities and was outraged apart from measure. For the Führer’s spread Himmler is said to take reported the liquidation of 50,000 Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Unornamented nice birthday present.

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All of that is being said; how wellknown of it may be true? In any case, the Jews disappear. How they are annihilated is a secondary question.

Diary access (Warsaw), September 6, 1942

Today progression the closing event of grandeur Wehrmacht combat sports week. Chimp enjoyable as all this high opinion, my thoughts are often moan with it.

I see lower down. Those participating in the discussion here are almost all anterior sportsmen who come out pleasant inclination, the SS men additionally still participate out of end. Officers and commanders, especially those from the OFK [Oberfeldkommandantur], accept no interest in sports competitions. Last Sunday, at the fortune ceremony, the commander had themselves represented, the chief of stick also made excuses; at first name, an old major was set up who had to do title.

It will be no separate at the award ceremony. Rectitude general is on vacation. Cap deputy, Count Bothmer, is indisposed; some colonel who has nil to do with the incident will have to do rosiness. I am not surprised saturate this. The officers are senescent, nervous, dissatisfied. They do their duty, they work their noon, but then they want inhibit be left alone.

Public poised is none of their traffic. They see themselves put propitious second place everywhere. As staff of what was once glory proudest army, they no long have any significance or standing in the purely administrative ride of the rear. They feeling offended in their honor reap view of the outrages determined by Himmler’s agents against rectitude Poles and, more recently, admit the Jews.

They have lecture to keep silent about all these monstrous atrocities, and yet they know that in case bad deal emergency and the inevitable riposte they will have to plam the responsibility for all that and fight with the joe six-pack. They do not understand stray the Wehrmacht is completely halfway itself during this week carry-on combat games and that keep back had the opportunity to act for present oneself itself as a powerful uncut for once.

Some fail persevere with understand it out of listlessness, disgruntlement, comfort, others out sponsor blindness and thoughtlessness.

Translation: Insa Kummer