Reception
- Bergengruen does in January, 1957 in his detailed review to the first publication of the diaries no secret from his quite obviously deeply to seated resentments.
- It looks as subordinate Bergengruen of sister Hildegard of the author material motives in the publication of the diaries of brother.
- Bergengruen speaks a truth. Renate's life was as of a "full Jew" - as one said in the NS linguistic usage - threatens in the German Reich. Klepper has had long enough time to support the emigration of the girl. Bergengruen can conclude in the connection from the memoirs neither on feelings of guilt nor on selfdoubt of the author.
- To an opponent of the Nazi regime the subservien Klepper could not explain itself.
- Indeed, Bergengruen certifies mental power to the author, however, it lacks him of feeling and imagination.
- Bergengruen also calls details which are not discoverable in the available book: For example, when he Klepper after October 1941, in his Berlin home visits, the blended man of the house has glorified his period of service with the armed forces and has regretted his forcible elimination from the troop.
- Klepper should have taken away his diaries from the access of the NS henchmen successfully, while he buried the papers.
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