May 15, Monday evening

"Of the National Socialists' criminal and insane acts I only make a note of what somehow touches my personality. Everything else can be looked up inthe newspapers. The mood of the present time, the waiting, the visiting one another, the counting of the days, the inhibited telephone conversations and correspondance - all of that could be recorded in memoirs one day. But my life is coming to an end, and these memoirs will never be written."

Victor Klemperer