War Diaries (April 20) (nonfiction)

War Diary quotations for April 20

Quotations

Reina Spiegel: April 20, 1942

Renia Spiegel began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.

Today is the Führer’s birthday. I want to scream with all my might.

How can you be in love for 18 months? Everything is real, pulsating, seething with life and love and youth. I feel as though I were riding a chariot or racing into the wind and rain. I can’t catch my breath, I can’t find words. I might dissolve in my own tenderness, my own affection. Today I was really ready to strangle him, but what would I do then? Zygus, I’m really writing this for you and you only! I’ve opened my heart to you and you’re so very dear to me! I’m happy, happy and light and...Dreams! Stupid, mad, wonderful dreams!

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Reina Spiegel (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine