In The Shadow of Your Wings

The book In the Shadow of Your Wings (Unter dem Schatten deiner Flügel) contains well-chosen diary recordings which Jochen Klepper wrote down in the time from April, 1932 to 10 December 1942. The choice appeared first in 1956.

The Protestant German writer, Journalist and Poet of ecclesiastical songs Jochen Klepper loses in the course of abovementioned ten years under the steadily increasing national-socialist reprisals the creative power. Klepper is married with the Jewess Johanna. Hanni, as Johanna is called, has brought two daughters from the first marriage. Kleppers of younger stepdaughter Renate the deportation threatens after the war beginning. Klepper supports the exit permit of the young girl to Sweden. The author penetrates up to the Sicherheitsdienst. There his request is turned down. Klepper takes the life from itself together with woman and child in the common Berlin residential house.