Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism.
The result is less a Diary than a sequence of stark and astonishing snapshots.
To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the corruptions of their rule.
Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright.
Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism