“Hardly anything special happened today,” Jan Bazuin wrote in his diary on Monday, November 20, 1944. It was the fifth year of World War II , and hunger, cold, and air raid sirens were nothing unique for the 19-year-old — just part of everyday life. Bazuin’s diary entries are short and concise, often consisting of only four sentences a day. Events are described soberly and without emotion. According to historian Barbara Beuys, such unsentimental detachment could have been a coping method, a way for him to grit his teeth and survive another day. Beuys researches the Nazi occupation of the...
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