Man speaks on German grandfather’s diary

A courageous German spoke out against the Nazis and, after Hitler came into power, kept a 10-volume diary recording Nazi atrocities that he witnessed and heard about.

Decades later, Dr. Robert Scott Kellner, American-born grandson of Friedrich Kellner, is waging a campaign to take his grandfather’s message to the world. He spoke Monday at Pittsburg State University.

“On every page of that diary my grandfather said something nasty about the Nazis that would have automatically gotten him shot,” Kellner said.

But his grandfather was determined to fight the Nazis in the only way he could.

“I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to fight them in the future,” he said. “I would give the coming generations a weapon against any resurgence of such evil. My eyewitness account would record the barbarous acts, and also show the way to stop them.”