A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau – The New York Times

A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau (Published 2020)

For two years, a prisoner in the German concentration camp kept a journal that would later be used to convict those who had persecuted him and killed his fellow prisoners.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/magazine/-secret-diarist-dachau.html

“I often believed that I couldn’t go on,” Edgar confessed once. “It was agony, a double one, mental as well as physical.” There were times, in fact, that he thought of destroying his diary, so that he could finally stop worrying about it, stop giving up his precious sleep for it.