num_pages: 240
description: Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, a Prussian aristocrat, began a secret diary in May 1936, which describes how a psychosis enveloped an entire society, enabling Hitler's rise to power, and the Nazi regime. His insider observations are set down with passion, with outrage, and almost unbearable sadness.
language: English
title: Diary of a Man in Despair
titlecomplete: Diary of a Man in Despair
genres: 20th Century, History, German Literature, World War II, Memoir, Biography, Germany, Holocaust, War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 760
places: Germany
publisher: Duckworth Publishing