IntroductionPART 1LEIPZIGImportant Dates1. They seize a Rabbi and tear out his beard2. Mäuslein the Martyr3. Holding our Breath4. I ran off like a madmanPART 2UNDERGROUNDImportant Dates5. Our soul had long left6. He only pretends to be so7. You simple-minded JewPART 3AYRANIZATIONImportant Dates8. The child cried and shivered 9. I toss and turn and rack my brainPART 4ESCAPE10. Heil Hitler Herr Freiherr!11. To come clean is not possible 12. I am not able to fight openly13. Now we are in a real mess!14. The worst of all torments15. The brave were silent 16. Enlighten the Fools 17. Curing the little Hitlers 18. German Jew alone 19. That is Swastika Logic! 20. Ignorant beliefs 21. They fear Hitler more than the enemy 22. Will life awaken again?PART 5AGENT PROVOCATEURImportant Dates 23. No longer the dangerous adventurer24. My God, isn’t that a great story!25. Revolutionary Jew26.We have become lonely again27. Agitate, until the pips squeak28. How much longer? 29. I was doubtless the first Jew PART 6STATELESS30. Herr Doktor 31. The truly upright… are but few 32. I will certainly not crawl to the Cross 33. Our regrets, Herr Doktor34. Disappointment 35. Exiled Epilogue About this translation: “Thank you for my life” Notes Photos About Les Leopold AcknowledgmentsCould 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.