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Heroic Or Foolish? The 1942 Bombing of a Nazi Anti-Soviet Exhibit

I. Two Diarists on the Bombing

In the spring of 1942, those two great German diarists of World War II, Joseph Goebbels and Victor Klemperer, described the same event: the bombing, on May 18, of a satirical anti-Soviet exhibit entitled "The Workers' Paradise," by a group of left-wing Jews led by Herbert Baum. Goebbels's entry, recorded the day following the event, expresses a determination to stop any incipient rebellion before it gets out of hand: Klemperer, writing from the opposite end of the political spectrum while lodged in a Judenhaus in Dresden, did not mention the bombing until June 8:...