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Heinrich Himmler inspecting prisoners of war in Russia during the Second World War. They show the contrast of Himmler's mundane daily life of having lunch and placing calls to family with the historical events he was involved in, in one instance issuing an order to place new dogs at Auschwitz capable of ripping prisoners to "shreds", in another taking a tour of the Sonderkommando at Majdanek ...
Goebbels began to keep a diary in October 1923, shortly before his 26th birthday, while unemployed and living in his parents' home at Rheydt in the Lower Rhine region. He had been given a diary as a present by Else Janke, a young woman (of part-Jewish background) with whom he had a turbulent and eventually unsuccessful relationship, and most of his early entries were about her.
The 1893 edition is available online. [23] Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine: 1 million: 61 years: 1878–1939: 12 volume diary. [24] Jean Lucey Pratt: 1 million: 61 years: 1925–1986: Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [25] Ernest Achey Loftus: Unknown: 91 years: 1896–1987: Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [26] [27] Caroline ...
A medium-sized desk diary, with lines for hours in the working day. This type may also be called an appointment diary. In stationery, a diary (UK and Commonwealth English), datebook, daybook, appointment book, planner or agenda (American English) is a small book contained a main diary section with a space for each day of the year with room for notes, a calendar.
A facsimile of the original diary of Anne Frank on display in Berlin. A diary is a written or audiovisual memorable record, with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period.
[2] [3] It has been used for multiple books in a series following the diarist's life over many years, such as the Adrian Mole series, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, and the Dork Diaries series, all of which chronicle the lives of characters who start a diary as children or adolescents and continue their diary as they mature over time.
Kafka began keeping the diaries at the age of 25, as an attempt to provoke his stalled creativity, and kept writing in them until 1923, a year before his death. [1] These diaries were in the background all through the composition of Kafka's major works and many of them are discussed and analyzed in detail.