Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen, recorded by Open Library as Friedrich Percy Reck-Malleczewen, was a German author born in 1884 and dead in 1945. He is remembered chiefly for Diary of a Man in Despair, a journal in which he set down passionate opposition to Adolf Hitler and Nazism. The Nazis eventually arrested him, and he was murdered at the Dachau concentration camp in the closing months of the war. Open Library counts twenty-three works under his main record and names the diary as the title it shows first, which fits its place as the book by which later readers know him. Other catalogue entries under variants of his name show that his fiction was also published.