Nothing more confounds your enemies than when you suddenly and silently recall a better moment and smile. - Friedrich Kellner

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Nothing more confounds your enemies than when you suddenly and silently recall a better moment and smile.

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About Friedrich Kellner

August Friedrich Kellner (1 February 1885 – 4 November 1970) was a justice inspector during the Nazi period in Germany. As a Social Democrat, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. During the Second World War, Kellner kept a secret diary to record Nazi crimes. He referred to his diary as “Mein Widerstand,” meaning My Opposition. His diary was published in its original language in 2011 under the title, Vernebelt, verdunkelt sind alle Hirne (Clouded and darkened are all the minds), by Wallstein Verlag in Göttingen, Germany. The English translation was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press: My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner -- A German against the Third Reich..

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Alternative Names: August Friedrich Kellner
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