My Opposition
The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich

A unique account of everyday life under the Third Reich and one man's opposition to the Nazi regime.

Friedrich Kellner (Author), Robert Scott Kellner (Edited and translated by)

9781108406963, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 January 2020

620 pages, 53 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.88 kg

'What is extraordinary is how well-informed Kellner is about geography in general and the detail of the progress of the war, in both Europe and Asia, in particular.' Jill Stephenson, European History Quarterly

This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany's path to dictatorship and genocide, and to protest his countrymen's complicity in the regime's brutalities. Just one month into the war he notes how soldiers on leave spoke openly about the extermination of the Jews and the murder of POWs, while he also documents the Gestapo's merciless rule at home from euthanasia campaigns against the handicapped and mentally ill to the execution of anyone found listening to foreign broadcasts. This essential testimony of everyday life under the Third Reich is accompanied by a foreword by Alan Steinweis and the remarkable story of how the diary was brought to light by Robert Scott Kellner, Friedrich's grandson.

Foreword Alan E. Steinweis
Preface
Biographical narrative
About the translation
Pre-war writings
The diary: 1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945.

Subject Areas: Fascism & Nazism [JPFQ], The Holocaust [HBTZ1], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD], Memoirs [BM]