On the Eerie Prescience of a Nazi-Era Diarist

On May 27, 1941, Victor Klemperer found himself ensnared in a familiar paradoxical loop. As the diarist sat down that evening to chronicle the news of the day, he displayed an alarming comfort with discomfiting events. Three days earlier had marked the one-year anniversary of his forced relocation to a Judenhaus in Dresden, Germany. From … Continue reading On the Eerie Prescience of a Nazi-Era Diarist