Friedrich Kellner

About the Author

Friedrich Kellner was a German justice inspector whose private diary, written during the Nazi era, offers a rare and courageous record of dissent from within the Third Reich. Through daily entries spanning 1939 to 1945, Kellner documented the regime’s crimes, the complicity of ordinary citizens, and his own moral resistance to tyranny. His writings stand as both a personal testament and a vital historical document, illuminating the quiet defiance of one individual amid widespread oppression. The diary, published decades later as My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner – A German against the Third Reich, continues to serve as an essential primary source for understanding civilian life under totalitarianism.