Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
—Anne Frank, from her diary, 20 June 1942
. . . all Dutch Jews are now in the bag.
—Dr. Hans Böhmcker, Beauftragter des Deutschen Reiches für die Stadt Amsterdam, 2 October 1941