War Diaries (February 4) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for February 4
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David Koker: February 4, 1944
A slight, insignificant-looking little man, with a rather good-humored face. High peaked cap, mustache, and small spectacles. I think: If you wanted to trace back all the misery and horror to just one person, it would have to be him. Around him a lot of fellows with weary faces. Very big, heavily dressed men, they swerve along whichever way he turns, like a swarm of flies, changing places among themselves (they don’t stand still for a moment) and moving like a single whole. It makes a fatally alarming impression. They look everywhere without finding anything to focus on.
- Diary of David Koker - account of life inside a concentration camp / The only first-person report of an encounter between a Jew and Heinrich Himmler, head Nazi and overseer of all the camps. On Feb. 4, 1944, Koker records that on the previous day he had looked directly at the man responsible for the Final Solution.
Ivorey Cobb: February 4, 1951
Your last leter said I was a bitter and was displaying signs of defeatism. Call it what you will, it adds up to the same thing and I stll feel the same way even though I don't let it affect my daily duty or reflect in my attitudes and performance of duty.
