The truth they ‘always’ knew: Wartime diary of lowly Nazi bureaucrat claims the Germans were aware of Hitler’s ‘inhuman atrocities’ against the Jews
Wartime diary of Friedrich Kellner claims German people knew of Nazi crimes
In 1941 he wrote about atrocities committed by Nazi soldiers on eastern front
His grandson said he wrote the diary so future generations knew the truth
By KEIRAN SOUTHERN
DAILYMAIL.COM
10 March 2018
The German people knew of the Nazis’ appalling crimes throughout World War Two, an explosive new book claims.
The secret wartime diary of Friedrich Kellner, a lowly bureaucrat, reveals he was in active opposition to Hitler.
On December 17, 1942, he wrote in the 200,000-word diary: ‘Adolf Hitler… is Satan and the devil in one person.’
And he reveals just how much the average German citizen knew about Hitler’s crimes – even towards the beginning of the Second World War, reports the Daily Express.
In October 1941 Kellner wrote about German soldiers returning from the frontline and noted the ‘inhuman atrocities’ on the eastern front ‘as naked Jewish men and women were placed in front of a long deep ditch and upon the order of the SS were shot by Ukrainians in the back of their heads.
‘Then the ditch was filled in as screams kept coming from it’.
Kellner’s grandson, former American serviceman Robert, said: ‘If he knew, it is clear that the average German did know what the Nazis were doing. The existence of the diary means it can never again be claimed that the Nazis were acting in secret.’
Robert was first shown the diary, now a book titled My Opposition, in 1960 when he travelled to Germany to meet his grandfather.
He was expecting to meet a Nazi, like his father, but instead found a man deeply against the evil group.
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