Introduction viiPART 1 LEIPZIGImportant Dates 31. They seize a Rabbi and tear out his beard 72. Mäuslein the martyr 163. Holding our breath 204. I ran off like a madman 25PART 2 UNDERGROUNDImportant Dates 315. Our soul had long left 336. He only pretends to be so 397. You simple-minded Jew 47PART 3 AYRANIZATIONImportant Dates 618. The child cried and shivered 639. I toss and turn and rack my brain 87PART 4 ESCAPE10. Heil Hitler Herr Freiherr! 9511. To come clean is not possible 10712. I am not able to fight openly 11113. Now we are in a real mess! 11514. The worst of all torments 11915. The brave were silent 12816. Enlighten the fools 13217. Curing the little Hitlers 13818. German Jew alone 14619. That is Swastika logic! 15120. Ignorant beliefs 15521. They fear Hitler more than the enemy 15922.Will life awaken again? 163PART 5 AGENT PROVOCATEURImportant Dates 16723. No longer the dangerous adventurer 16924. My God, isn’t that a great story! 17425. Revolutionary Jew 19126.We have become lonely again 20027. Agitate, until the pips squeak 21228. How much longer? 22829. I was doubtless the first Jew 245PART 6 STATELESS30. Herr Doktor 27331. The truly upright… are but few 28332. I will certainly not crawl to the Cross 29833. Our regrets, Herr Doktor 30834. Disappointment 32635. Exiled 345Epilogue 360About this translation: “Thank you for my life” 362Notes 364Photos 374About Les Leopold 379Acknowledgments 381Could German Jews have done more to rebel against the Nazis? Dr. Walter Leopold faced this question in real time, and shares his story of Jewish resistance in this shocking WW2 diary.Could German Jews have done more to rebel against the Nazis and resist deportation to slaughter? Dr. Walter Leopold faced this question in real time, and shares his story of Jewish resistance in this shocking WW2 diary.Through the eyes of a self-declared “revolutionary Jew” we follow Walter into the hell of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938, from which he is miraculously released. Pressured by the Gestapo to flee the country, he refuses. We will never know why. He would have saved himself and his young family unimaginable hunger, thirst and fear. Yet, against all odds, they managed to survive as he continued his fight against Fascism.His beloved Alsatian dog is executed in 1941 when the Nazis insanely demand the extermination of all pets owned by Jews. Walter, with a Star of David on his sleeve, is forced in 1942 to round up stray Jews for deportation, carrying a concealed weapon at all times, willing to take his own life rather than be captured by the Gestapo. Through enormous subterfuge, Walter gains employment as an auditor in the Nazi Administration while continuing to agitate against Hitler. He wages his lonely war inside the Third Reich with a wife and a very young child, where one errant word, one prying eye from the past, one astute Nazi informer would have meant certain death. Dr. Walter Leopold is the epitome of the defiant German, the defiant Jew.Could German Jews have done more to rebel against the Nazis and resist deportation to slaughter? Dr. Walter Leopold faced this question in real time, and shares his story of Jewish resistance in this shocking WW2 diary.Through the eyes of a self-declared “revolutionary Jew” we follow Walter into the hell of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938, from which he is miraculously released. Pressured by the Gestapo to flee the country, he refuses. We will never know why. He would have saved himself and his young family unimaginable hunger, thirst and fear. Yet, against all odds, they managed to survive as he continued his fight against Fascism.His beloved Alsatian dog is executed in 1941 when the Nazis insanely demand the extermination of all pets owned by Jews. Walter, with a Star of David on his sleeve, is forced in 1942 to round up stray Jews for deportation, carrying a concealed weapon at all times, willing to take his own life rather than be captured by the Gestapo. Through enormous subterfuge, Walter gains employment as an auditor in the Nazi Administration while continuing to agitate against Hitler. He wages his lonely war inside the Third Reich with a wife and a very young child, where one errant word, one prying eye from the past, one astute Nazi informer would have meant certain death. Dr. Walter Leopold is the epitome of the defiant German, the defiant Jew.