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

Kellner's wartime account of his secret acts of resistance to the Nazi regime during his time as a mid-level official in a provincial town. Provides an insight into everyday life under the Third Reich.

List of contents

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

About the author

Robert Scott Kellner discovered his grandfather's diary in 1960 and has worked tirelessly to bring it to the attention of the world through exhibits at the Dwight Eisenhower and George H. W. Bush Presidential Libraries, a documentary film screened at the United Nations, and the publication of a complete edition of the diary in German and abridgments in Russian and Polish.

Summary

A remarkable account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. Friedrich Kellner's diary unflinchingly charts the country's path to dictatorship and genocide, and demonstrates just how much ordinary Germans really knew about the actions of the Nazi regime.

Product details

• Authors: Friedrich Kellner
• Assisted by: Robert Scott Kellner (Editor), Robert Scott Kellner (Translation), Robert Scott Kellner (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108406963
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40696-3
• No. of pages: 620
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, European History, Diaries, letters & journals, HISTORY / Europe / General, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, The Holocaust, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1940 to c 1949