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Title: Why isn't this more well-known?
Review: I received this book as a gift this Christmas and was daunted by the 2 volume small print. But once I started reading, I became drawn into his life, attentively reading until the end. Many insights into Nazism, but more just very human- probably how many of us would react. Every page true, because it was written only for himself. The astounding thing is that it went on for years and years, though even his earliest entries indicate many people knew of the insanity. It must be horrible to love your country, as he loved the German culture, but want its defeat. Where was the rest of the world? At what point should other nations concern themselves with how a country treats its own citizens? The segment on his short isolation in 1941 is as well written as Kafka. Yes, others suffered or witnessed more, but no other record is as full of insights. Is this why he survived?
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