Diary Entry Of The Holocaust Diary By Frank Krebs
The Holocaust Diary
First Entry
January 30,1933
My name is Friedrich Krebs. I am a 29-year-old free-lance journalist. I write about all things happening in Germany, and then sell them to newspapers and magazines all over the world. I am the only son of a World War 1 hero, and my mother who idolizes me. I am divorced with one son who resides with his mother. I’m young, blonde, blue-eyed, strong, and pure German. I’m what you would consider Hitler ideal German to be. Rather than believing in the Weimar republic, I believe in democracy. I consider the Weimar republic to be week and helpless. I do not like what these groups of thugs who call themselves “Nazis” are trying to do. I mean they are trying to …show more content…
blame the war on the Jews, communists, and the liberals. Saying how Hitler will bring the Germans back to their farmer greatness. My own father agrees with the Nazis, he is already eager to rid the country of foreigners and especially Jews. But he doesn’t know that I have a Jewish girlfriend, named Anna. Also my wife is raising our son to become one of these criminals. He is only five and already belongs to some Nazi youth organization. I will do whatever it takes to make sure that these people don’t do anymore damage to our country.
Second Entry
February 27,1933
On this day people who choose to take this oath have chosen to give in and not go for what they believe in but what he believes in. I on the other hand will not give in and choose not to take the oath and make a stand for what I believe in. I will try and contribte to working to defeat Hitler as much as I can. Since I am a journalist I can write about all the bad things happening to our country. After writing about these events I will sell them to newspapers and magazines all over the world, so they would know how much of a threat Hitler is not only to the people of Germany but also to the world.
Third Entry
May 10,1933
Today is the day of the book burning kids running around yelling like the burning of the books doesn’t even bother them, they don’t know how much books would help them because their young children doing what they thought was right. The Nazis and police are knocking on people’s doors and confiscating their books, I know a lot of people who don’t agree with this but don’t want to put the lives of their family in danger. Me being a journalist I do not agree with this one bit not having books would change how we think so we wont have our own opinions, we would all have the same thoughts because we are only allowed to read similar books. I will have to go to this book burning later this evening and I will have a decision to make whether I want to participate in this and throw a book into the fire or try and stop them from throwing the books, so as I have returned you know I have made the decision to join in on the burning. A little boy came up to me and tried to put a book in my hand, as I refused a soldier walks up and stands right behind the boy staring at me and says, if you have trust in what Hitler is doing you will take the book and throw it in. I did not want to get arrested and loose the chance of spreading the word to the world about what’s happening here so I took the book and tossed it. It was a very hard thing to do but I did it for the sake of my country.
Fourth Entry
August 1,1936
I am here in Berlin for the Olympic games to support my country of course.
I walk into the stadium. There are so many people but not just Germans other nationalities are here to cheer on their country. I feel as if everywhere like they were watching my every move. I also notice some American reporters were also there, maybe this is my chance to get out to the world about what was happening here. The people here would know nothing about what’s going on here because Hitler had all the propaganda posters taken down and the cities cleared of anything that would alert the people from other countries. I hope I could have a chance of speaking with one of the U.S reporter but its not going to be easy with all the SS officers around watching. If they see me attempting to talk to the reporters I will be arrested and punished maybe even killed. I have decided that trying to talk to the reporters would be too risky so I will not try and talk to them. Because if I get arrested I would leave my girlfriend who is Jewish alone and could possibly get taken away, and my father would find out that I was going against Hitler and he believes in what Hitler is doing. If I got caught it could also put my family in danger who knows what Hitler would do with …show more content…
them.
Fifth Entry
September 29,1936
Today I am having a private dinner with Josef Goebbels a friend and worker of Hitler. Goebbels is also a journalist but he is one for the Nazi party and has been since 1926. I wanted this meeting because if I could get a job as a journalist for the Nazi party, after I earn their trust I could easily get the word out to the world and the would never suspect it was me. At the dinner we discussed my believes to be on that Hitler is doing and what they expect of me as a journalist. When I looked at Goebbels I would have never thought he would be in the Nazi party because he was a total opposite of the perfect German that Hitler described. He was small, dark and crippled with a permanent limp. After I saw him I knew I could get the job because I was the perfect German that Hitler described, and why would they turn down a perfect German. I would also be able to keep my girlfriend unharmed if I join the Nazi party. At the end of the dinner he said he would like to offer me a job to work with him as a journalist, so I shook his hand and gladly accepted.
Sixth Entry
November 10,1938
It’s all starting today what the newspapers called Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass.
I look outside and see all Jewish businesses being burned down, or severely damaged. Not only are their businesses being destroyed they are being pulled out from their homes a lot of the times dragged out and beaten. The Nazi mobs were vicious towards them worse than ive seen before sometimes beating the Jews in the city by the hundreds. I have a choice to make, do I try and save my girlfriend and risk being caught or do I just give her up to them and never see her again. I can’t do that to her I need to find a place for her to hide a place they would never think to look here. The mob is almost to my house I have to think quickly or I will loose her to those monsters. I told her to go outback and under the stairs outside there’s an opening she would be safe there. I had no intention of telling Goebbels to see if he could help because he was the one that put in the newspaper to do this so all he would do is turn me in. as I started to calm door I hear a knock at my door but there was no shouting I open it and before my eyes was a family, a Jewish family that had escaped and asked for my help. I had to think but think quickly cause the mob was only down the street, so I told them to go where I had told my girlfriend to o and wait till I came and got them. The mob was finally at my door they asked if I had any Jews in here I said no. The people barged in and started to raid my home
they finally left after ten minutes of searching and found nothing, my home a mess but they found nothing.
Seventh Entry
November 12,1938
I have moved away from my old home to try and get away from all the madness. I still have work so ill just do the work from here I live near Auschwitz Birkenau. Life here is good for me but little did I know when I moved out here that I moved near a camp. In the beginning, I thought ghettos were for just the poor, now I know that the Germans were forcing the Jews to live there and then moving them to concentration camps. I can go for a walk and see this camp and see the people in it but I cant do anything to help them. I see the labor they have to do, they look all sluggish and beat, you can see the guards yelling and beating them when they stop working. I see groups of young kids, elders, and weak go into these buildings while being escorted by troops so they couldn’t run, the guards close the door and the group would never come out. I knew what had happened to them but I never knew how it was happening. I know these types of things im just a writer. It is hard to watch this all happening wishing I could do something but risk being killed myself and loosing the trust of Goebbels.
Eighth Entry
November 4,1943
I have witnessed the massacre, now I have lost the little respect I had for the German soldiers, Hitler, and Himmler. Himmler doesn’t care how many Jews die because of his success. Being a journalist I had to be to there witnessing a side I had never seen before of these soldiers and leaders. I saw dead bodies on the ground lined up in rows like they were in an assembly line. But the worst was I actually seeing the killings, they had them line up and like a firing squad they shot them in the neck. Some of the people were even still alive after they were shot and they just left them there. But even if you turn around to try and look away there were more trucks full of more Jews waiting to be slaughtered. The sad thing was it wasn’t just the elders it was also young children, families killed, they were forced to take off their clothes so they were killed naked. More and more trucks come and go, unloading then killing the defenseless they were weak and hungry. This is one of the worst things I had ever seen.
Ninth Entry
October 8,1944
“First they took the land
Then they took the people
Then they took me and there was no one left The demons in disguise
Creating chaos in every direction
What we sure can do
Never let this pain happen again.
First Entry
January 30,1933
My name is Friedrich Krebs. I am a 29-year-old free-lance journalist. I write about all things happening in Germany, and then sell them to newspapers and magazines all over the world. I am the only son of a World War 1 hero, and my mother who idolizes me. I am divorced with one son who resides with his mother. I’m young, blonde, blue-eyed, strong, and pure German. I’m what you would consider Hitler ideal German to be. Rather than believing in the Weimar republic, I believe in democracy. I consider the Weimar republic to be week and helpless. I do not like what these groups of thugs who call themselves “Nazis” are trying to do. I mean they are trying to …show more content…
blame the war on the Jews, communists, and the liberals. Saying how Hitler will bring the Germans back to their farmer greatness. My own father agrees with the Nazis, he is already eager to rid the country of foreigners and especially Jews. But he doesn’t know that I have a Jewish girlfriend, named Anna. Also my wife is raising our son to become one of these criminals. He is only five and already belongs to some Nazi youth organization. I will do whatever it takes to make sure that these people don’t do anymore damage to our country.
Second Entry
February 27,1933
On this day people who choose to take this oath have chosen to give in and not go for what they believe in but what he believes in. I on the other hand will not give in and choose not to take the oath and make a stand for what I believe in. I will try and contribte to working to defeat Hitler as much as I can. Since I am a journalist I can write about all the bad things happening to our country. After writing about these events I will sell them to newspapers and magazines all over the world, so they would know how much of a threat Hitler is not only to the people of Germany but also to the world.
Third Entry
May 10,1933
Today is the day of the book burning kids running around yelling like the burning of the books doesn’t even bother them, they don’t know how much books would help them because their young children doing what they thought was right. The Nazis and police are knocking on people’s doors and confiscating their books, I know a lot of people who don’t agree with this but don’t want to put the lives of their family in danger. Me being a journalist I do not agree with this one bit not having books would change how we think so we wont have our own opinions, we would all have the same thoughts because we are only allowed to read similar books. I will have to go to this book burning later this evening and I will have a decision to make whether I want to participate in this and throw a book into the fire or try and stop them from throwing the books, so as I have returned you know I have made the decision to join in on the burning. A little boy came up to me and tried to put a book in my hand, as I refused a soldier walks up and stands right behind the boy staring at me and says, if you have trust in what Hitler is doing you will take the book and throw it in. I did not want to get arrested and loose the chance of spreading the word to the world about what’s happening here so I took the book and tossed it. It was a very hard thing to do but I did it for the sake of my country.
Fourth Entry
August 1,1936
I am here in Berlin for the Olympic games to support my country of course.
I walk into the stadium. There are so many people but not just Germans other nationalities are here to cheer on their country. I feel as if everywhere like they were watching my every move. I also notice some American reporters were also there, maybe this is my chance to get out to the world about what was happening here. The people here would know nothing about what’s going on here because Hitler had all the propaganda posters taken down and the cities cleared of anything that would alert the people from other countries. I hope I could have a chance of speaking with one of the U.S reporter but its not going to be easy with all the SS officers around watching. If they see me attempting to talk to the reporters I will be arrested and punished maybe even killed. I have decided that trying to talk to the reporters would be too risky so I will not try and talk to them. Because if I get arrested I would leave my girlfriend who is Jewish alone and could possibly get taken away, and my father would find out that I was going against Hitler and he believes in what Hitler is doing. If I got caught it could also put my family in danger who knows what Hitler would do with …show more content…
them.
Fifth Entry
September 29,1936
Today I am having a private dinner with Josef Goebbels a friend and worker of Hitler. Goebbels is also a journalist but he is one for the Nazi party and has been since 1926. I wanted this meeting because if I could get a job as a journalist for the Nazi party, after I earn their trust I could easily get the word out to the world and the would never suspect it was me. At the dinner we discussed my believes to be on that Hitler is doing and what they expect of me as a journalist. When I looked at Goebbels I would have never thought he would be in the Nazi party because he was a total opposite of the perfect German that Hitler described. He was small, dark and crippled with a permanent limp. After I saw him I knew I could get the job because I was the perfect German that Hitler described, and why would they turn down a perfect German. I would also be able to keep my girlfriend unharmed if I join the Nazi party. At the end of the dinner he said he would like to offer me a job to work with him as a journalist, so I shook his hand and gladly accepted.
Sixth Entry
November 10,1938
It’s all starting today what the newspapers called Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass.
I look outside and see all Jewish businesses being burned down, or severely damaged. Not only are their businesses being destroyed they are being pulled out from their homes a lot of the times dragged out and beaten. The Nazi mobs were vicious towards them worse than ive seen before sometimes beating the Jews in the city by the hundreds. I have a choice to make, do I try and save my girlfriend and risk being caught or do I just give her up to them and never see her again. I can’t do that to her I need to find a place for her to hide a place they would never think to look here. The mob is almost to my house I have to think quickly or I will loose her to those monsters. I told her to go outback and under the stairs outside there’s an opening she would be safe there. I had no intention of telling Goebbels to see if he could help because he was the one that put in the newspaper to do this so all he would do is turn me in. as I started to calm door I hear a knock at my door but there was no shouting I open it and before my eyes was a family, a Jewish family that had escaped and asked for my help. I had to think but think quickly cause the mob was only down the street, so I told them to go where I had told my girlfriend to o and wait till I came and got them. The mob was finally at my door they asked if I had any Jews in here I said no. The people barged in and started to raid my home
they finally left after ten minutes of searching and found nothing, my home a mess but they found nothing.
Seventh Entry
November 12,1938
I have moved away from my old home to try and get away from all the madness. I still have work so ill just do the work from here I live near Auschwitz Birkenau. Life here is good for me but little did I know when I moved out here that I moved near a camp. In the beginning, I thought ghettos were for just the poor, now I know that the Germans were forcing the Jews to live there and then moving them to concentration camps. I can go for a walk and see this camp and see the people in it but I cant do anything to help them. I see the labor they have to do, they look all sluggish and beat, you can see the guards yelling and beating them when they stop working. I see groups of young kids, elders, and weak go into these buildings while being escorted by troops so they couldn’t run, the guards close the door and the group would never come out. I knew what had happened to them but I never knew how it was happening. I know these types of things im just a writer. It is hard to watch this all happening wishing I could do something but risk being killed myself and loosing the trust of Goebbels.
Eighth Entry
November 4,1943
I have witnessed the massacre, now I have lost the little respect I had for the German soldiers, Hitler, and Himmler. Himmler doesn’t care how many Jews die because of his success. Being a journalist I had to be to there witnessing a side I had never seen before of these soldiers and leaders. I saw dead bodies on the ground lined up in rows like they were in an assembly line. But the worst was I actually seeing the killings, they had them line up and like a firing squad they shot them in the neck. Some of the people were even still alive after they were shot and they just left them there. But even if you turn around to try and look away there were more trucks full of more Jews waiting to be slaughtered. The sad thing was it wasn’t just the elders it was also young children, families killed, they were forced to take off their clothes so they were killed naked. More and more trucks come and go, unloading then killing the defenseless they were weak and hungry. This is one of the worst things I had ever seen.
Ninth Entry
October 8,1944
“First they took the land
Then they took the people
Then they took me and there was no one left The demons in disguise
Creating chaos in every direction
What we sure can do
Never let this pain happen again.