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Feb 01, 1885 Vaihingen an der Enz, Baden Württemberg, Germany Died on 04 Nov 1970 (aged 85)
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About Friedrich Kellner
- August Friedrich Kellner (1 February 1885 – 4 November 1970) was a mid-level official in Germany who worked as a justice inspector in Mainz and Laubach.
- During the First World War, Kellner was an infantryman in a Hessian regiment.
- After the war he became a political organizer for the Social Democratic Party of Germany, which was the leading political party during the time of the turbulent and short-lived Weimar Republic, Germany's first period of democracy.
- Kellner and his wife, Pauline, campaigned together as Social Democrats against Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
- During World War II, working as a civil servant at a small court house, he wrote a diary to record his observations of the Nazi regime.
- Based on conversations and attentive reading of newspapers, he described the various crimes of that regime.
- He titled his work Mein Widerstand, meaning "My Opposition".
- After the war Kellner served on denazification boards, and he also helped to reestablish the Social Democratic Party.
- He gave his diary to his American grandson in 1968 to translate into English and to bring it to the attention of the public.
- In the epilogue, the author's grandson Robert Scott Kellner tells how the diary came to be published: German publishers were not interested until in 2005 it was reported in Der Spiegel that former US President George H.
- W.
- Bush had looked at Kellner's original notebooks in the George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University.
- He explained his purpose for writing the diary: "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.
- I would give the coming generations a weapon against any resurgence of such evil.
- My eyewitness account would record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them."The diary was published in its original language in 2011 and in English in 2018.
