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August Friedrich Kellner war ein deutscher Sozialdemokrat, Justizinspektor und Autor dokumentarischer Aufzeichnungen in der Zeit des Naziregimes in Deutschland. Im Geheimen hatte er während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus Tagebücher geführt. Er sagte später dazu:

„Ich konnte die Nazis damals nicht in der Gegenwart bekämpfen. Also entschloss ich mich, sie in der Zukunft zu bekämpfen. Ich wollte kommenden Generationen eine Waffe gegen jedes Wiederaufleben solchen Unrechts geben. Meine Augenzeugenberichte sollten die barbarischen Akte aufzeichnen und auch zeigen, wie man sie beenden konnte.“

↑ Magers, Phil: German's war diary goes public. The Washington Times, 28. März 2005

✵ 1. Februar 1885 – 4. November 1970
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„Der Sieg der Amerikaner, Engländer und Russen war erforderlich, den Nationalsozialistischen Irrwahn und die Welteroberungspläne zu zerstören.“

Friedrich Kellner

Tagebucheintrag, 1. Mai 1945

„Die Demokratie mit den Füßen zu treten und einem einzigen Menschen die Gewalt über nahezu 80 Millionen Menschen zu geben, ist so furchtbar, daß man ob der Dinge, die da kommen werden, sehr wohl zittern kann.“

Friedrich Kellner

Tagebucheintrag, 17. September 1939

„Es gibt keine Strafe, die hart genug wäre, bei diesen Nazi-bestien angewendet zu werden. Natürlich müssen bei der Vergeltung auch wieder die Unschuldigen mitleiden. 99% der deutschen Bevölkerung tragen mittelbar oder unmittelbar die Schuld an den heutigen Zuständen. Deshalb kann es nur heißen: ‘Mitgegangen - mitgehangen’.“

Friedrich Kellner

Tagebucheintrag, 28. Oktober 1941

„Warum nur Haß? Wo bleibt die Liebe? Oder wenigstens ein bisschen Anständigkeit anderen Völkern gegenüber. Genau wie wir uns den Juden gegenüber benommen haben, genau so wollen wir alle anderen Völker die uns irgendwie im Wege sind zerschlagen, zertrampeln – ja sogar ausrotten.“

Friedrich Kellner

Tagebucheintrag, 30 März 1940

„Wir wollen alles ertragen, wenn wir nur die Gewißheit haben, daß das Ungeheuer Hitler mit seiner unersättlichen Blüt - und Plünderungsgier bald seine letzten Schandtaten begangen haben wird.“

Friedrich Kellner

Tagebucheintrag, 28. März 1945

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“Now the following questions must be raised: Have we become happier since occupying these other countries? Has the individual German gained anything from such conquests? Will we not get into trouble with another powerful nation at some point--if not tomorrow, then the day after? Making ourselves bigger will not diminish potential conflicts of interest.”

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October 7, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 92.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future.”

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“Ich entschloss mich, die Nazis in der Zukunft zu bekämpfen,” Giessener Anzeiger, Giessen, Germany, April 6, 2005.
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“Terror is trump. Methods of common brutal suppression are considered sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are saints, and from the district leader upwards there are only Gods!”

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October 7, 1939; Vol. 1, p. 30.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“The carnage will eventually come to an end, but the Western powers will carry the historical guilt for not promptly providing the most intensive preventative measures against Germany's incessant attack-politics. Possibilities existed, but no actions were taken.”

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May 29, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 73.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“To trample democracy with one’s feet and give power to a single man over almost eighty million people is so terrible that one can really tremble over the things that will come.”

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September 17, 1939; Vol. 1, p. 26.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book!”

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Referring to Mein Kampf, in Kellner's political speeches against the Nazis, 1926 - 1932. “Tagebücher gegen den Terror,” Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainz, Germany, September 24, 2005.
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“This "Conqueror of Berlin," as he [Joseph Goebbels] has named himself, has completely conquered Germany. And not only that: many Germans living abroad--all too many of them, unfortunately--have fallen for the cunning propaganda.”

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October 14, 1939; Vol. 1, p. 40.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“When dictators enslave their own people and seek to impose their anti-democratic ideology upon others, when evil seeks power, men and women of good will must set aside their own differences of opinion and stand together and fight – including those who hate war.”

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“German’s war diary goes public,” Washington Times, UPI News, March 25, 2005.
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“If now, after the collapse, any of these lackeys of Adolf Hitler has the insolence to want to be considered as a harmless onlooker, then one can only wish he immediately feels the scourge of avenging mankind.... Whoever cries about having lost the totalitarian system or wants to resurrect National Socialism is to be treated as an incorrigible lunatic.”

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May 8, 1945; Vol. 2, p. 935.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.”

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May 29, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 73.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“The world will rightfully be outraged over so much inhumanity, and it will ignite a hatred that can never be extinguished.... How long will this reign of terror continue?”

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October 26, 1941; Vol. 1, p. 191.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? We think we can behave against everyone in the exact same rabid way we did against the Jews: to smash, crush--and even exterminate.”

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March 30, 1940; Vol. 1, p. 62.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“There is no punishment that would be hard enough to be applied to these Nazi beasts. Of course, in the case of retribution the innocent will have to suffer along with them. Ninety-nine percent of the German people, directly or indirectly, carry the guilt for the present situation. Therefore we can only say this: Those who travel together, hang together.”

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October 28, 1941; Vol. 1, p. 192.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“The craziest of all political systems, the unique leader state, has found its deserved end. History will note for eternity that the German people were not able on their own initiative to shake off the yoke of the National Socialists. The victory of the Americans, English, and Russians was a necessary occurrence to destroy the National Socialists' delusions and plans for world domination.”

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May 1, 1945; Vol. 2, p. 930.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“We can hold up under everything if only we have the certainty the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.”

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March 28, 1945; Vol. 2, p. 922.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.”

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“Welt muss mehr denn je diese Botschaft hören,” Giessener Allgemeine Zeitung, Giessen, Germany, April 12, 2005.
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“Under the category, "Air Force aided by Hitler youth," the children wear military uniforms and become used to handling the artillery. Fifteen- and sixteen-year-old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps infants also will be used. Total war!”

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December 14, 1943; Vol. 1, p. 580.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“My main goal after the war was to help rebuild the Social Democratic Party that Hitler had banned, and use it to reunite the people of Germany who had forgotten how a democracy worked – through tolerance, compromise and a dedication to individual freedom.”

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“Search led to family, diary and a cause,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, Texas), April 22, 2007.
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“The Party uses the lies up to the last moment as a cover-up. Thus it intimidates the political opponents and provides its Party comrades with sedatives. It is so unbelievably simple for the current gang to lie to this German people and to lead these fools around by the nose.”

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March 26, 1945; Vol. 2, p. 920.
Diary (1939 - 1945)

“Even in days of loss and sorry, beauty remains, and I am ever grateful.”

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July 1968, of the Lennebergwald (Lenneberg Forest), Mainz, Germany.
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“Thank God for youth; there will always be love.”

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Quelle: July 1968, referring to the Lennebergwald (Lenneberg Forest) and youthful hikers, Mainz, Germany.

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