Berlin girl's diary published: Backfisch in Bombenkrieg

[EtienneSC]

There is a new German book on everyday life in Berlin that reprints a teenage girl's diary:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zei ... 01355.html
A few excerpts:
"Gitti is utterly unaware of Third Reich atrocities, referring only once in the entire diary to the Nazis' systematic deportations of Jews."
She notes the deportations: "Jews all over town are being taken away, including the tailor across the road."
"But despite working at a textiles company based in the Hackesche Höfe in Mitte, then the heart of Berlin's Jewish district, she fails to notice anything amiss."
""My son always said to me: How could you have been so oblivious?" she says. "I never saw a thing!" Nazi terminology still trips easily off her tongue. "Berlin was already Judenrein ("cleansed of Jews") by then, and I was too young to have noticed anything before that. There were some Jewish girls in my first ever class photograph, taken in 1933, but by the time the next was taken, they were all gone. When I asked my mother about them, she said they had moved to Palestine."

"Decades would pass before she understood what had happened. "It was only when I visted Buchenwald in the 1970s that I saw photographs of the camps," she remembers. "It took me years to realize what had gone on.""

[Mkk]

So a young girl does what young girls do - dancing, hairdoes, boyfriends, movies and so on.

Instead of being evidence that Germans were rather ordinary, civilized people, its further evidence of the "holocaust", even though nothing of an extermination plan is reported.

[EtienneSC]

It fits the pattern of contemporary references to deportation and people at the time having no idea about the supposed genocide occurring on their doorstep.