“On top of that the growing tyranny, the growing misery and sinking hope of any foreseeable end. (Although the gnashing of teeth in the most diverse social strata is becoming ever more audible.) — Especially repugnant to us is the behavior of some Jews. They are beginning to submit inwardly and to regard the new ghetto situation atavistically as a legal condition that has to be accepted. � Anyone who does not at every hour of the day hope for revolt is a low dog. Eva’s [Klemperer’s German wife] bitterness is even greater than mine. National Socialism, she says, more precisely the attitude of the Jews toward it, is making her anti-Semitic…
A sudden decree to make the whole of Tuesday afternoon and half of Thursday afternoon free for military sports. The Cultural Sciences Section can basically only lecture in the afternoon. A series of lectures was simply canceled.
Scholarship is no longer essential.”
— October 9, 1933
