1932 Klepper suffers from his childlessness . He calls himself a " religious socialist " . The work of the 30-year-old author is narrow . But Klepper is fulfilled as an intellectual by big desire for fame . 1933 To Kleppers understanding is not author who has merely ideas and materials . Author is who can express that quite peculiar " state of the liveliness " in his text . Talent would be unnecessary . The Nazis have now all power monopolized . Klepper is at the Radio employed . He is denounced : " Jewish family . SPD member " is the accusation . The active employees will be suspended from service . Still Klepper not despondent . Because he holds fast to his faith , writes in his novel " The Father , Novel of the Soldier-King " ( Stuttgart 1937 ) and loves his wife Hanni . Is Klepper " divine tool " ? He has doubts . Also these odious " memoirs " , which Klepper writes down - which value do they have ? The writer will remain in the country at any rate . Abroad he sees no working possibility . Indeed , in Berlin the giants Ullstein and Ufa want his cooperation , however , do not pay . Thus Klepper would like to be taken up in the Empire Literature Chamber . 1934 The plan succeeds , because one of his guarantors is a SA man . Besides , Klepper calls the National Socialists " ill visionaries " , if he entrusts with his worry about the future of Germany the diary . 1935 Clamour is not possible for Klepper . He lives under the motto " Keep still " . With such behavior a small private sphere can be saved . The excesses in Kurfürstendamm are disconcerting . Jewish women receive on the open road slaps in the face . In spite of all that , Klepper further wants to write , as long as he may still remain in the Empire Literature Chamber . Since writing is a religious process for him . God has called the author and latter answers with a book - a stammered answer . 1936 German relatives recommend to the couple Klepper repeatedly to send both daughters in the sure foreign country . Klepper said the precaution would be unnecessary . The author probably knows about his isolation in Germany , however , he builds on the help of God . In 1937 , on 25 March the author from the Empire Literature Chamber is excluded . The reason is to Kleppers conviction his mixing marriage . The exclusion is out on an appeal in June suspended , and the Imperial War Department recommends Kleppers new novel " The Father " as a reading for the Wehrmacht members . 1938 However , the Empire Literature Chamber accuses the Christian Klepper " of slavish posture " which would contradict the " new mind " . From March Klepper is supervised no more by the Empire Literature Chamber , but by the Propaganda Ministry . Nevertheless , in this precarious situation there is still a courageous journalist , the Klepper his organ as a platform offers : The Protestant theologian Prof. Mulert encourages the author to write for the " Christian world " . Klepper remains careful . If Ernst Wiechert sits , nevertheless , because of the case Niemöller in the concentration camp . Klepper and his wife , Hanni register well as Jewish doctors and lawyers in Germany are no longer allowed to practice , how German Jews to sell their assets and emigrate . There should be a concentration camp near Weimar . Every German Jew should carry from 1 January 1939 , in addition , the given name Israel or Sara and must give him everywhere . Polish Jews in Germany will be imprisoned or expelled . In spite of this news couple Klepper builds a new house in Berlin . In connection with the Kristallnacht Klepper disturb the arbitrary arrests of Jewish men by the Gestapo . Klepper 's wife Hanni converts to the Christianity . Klepper is horrified about Hannis identification card . 1939 Both stepdaughters Kleppers would like to emigrate . Wife Hanni wants to remain . NS ideologist Rosenberg speaks openly , all Jews should leave the German Reich . German Jews must offer before certain valuables - as for example precious metals - to buying places to the sales . When the war breaks out , Klepper does a patriotic note in his diary : He could not Germany the decline wish . As from November Jews for leaving their local authorized by the Gestapo need , Klepper expresses the suicide thought . Is suicide a sin ? The older stepdaughter is the departure to England succeed . Because of the younger daughter Renate wants the couple to stay alive . 1940 February : A rumour reaches Klepper . Jews would be deported by Szczecin to Lublin . As a wife of an " Aryan " Hanni is protected . However , for daughter Renate it becomes more and more dangerous : Men of the Death 's Head SS ring in the front door and inquire after the young girl . Renate converts - like before her mother - to the Christianity . Klepper receives news from an unfathomable process in the German Reich : Hindered are murdered . All called events weaken taken together the creativity of the sensitive Klepper so much that he manages the next novels ( Katharina von Bora ) no more . The vitality , however , he wants to keep . And thus he struggles dogged , tenaciously and , in the end , successfully for an entry permit for Renate to Sweden . For all that Klepper means on 26 July surprisingly , Germany will defeat England . 1941 From December , 1940 Klepper serves with the armed forces and will dismiss at the beginning of October , 1941 because of " military unworthiness " , thus because of his " non-aryan marriage " . Berlin 's Jews are now in a very hard situation . Renate must carry discriminating Yellow badge and brings terrifying news with home : Confessed become after Litzmannstadt deports . The suicide thought lies to young Renate far . She hopes for survival . Klepper penetrates up to " Imperial Minister Dr. Frick " and obtains a document in which Renate ministerial protection from deportation is assured . This letter may Renates life admittedly only so long protected until the Sicherheitsdienst mercilessly intervenes . News about the deportation of Jews takes no end . Renate sways between depression and hope . The girl tells the thoughts of suicide , if their departure fail should , not go back . News of massacres , perpetrated on Jews , invade from the east to Berlin . 1942 Hanni rejects the thought of triple suicide . Klepper does not know whether he should condemn the German warfare . After tantalizing back-and-forth Renate from Sweden receives the desired entry permit . Frick is no more responsible , in the meantime , for the exit permit , but now Eichmann . Klepper does not receive the permission and goes voluntarily to the death
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
In the Shadow of Your Wings