In the Shadow of Your Wings

In the Shadow of Your Wings is a collection of selected entries from the diary of Jochen Klepper covering the period between April 1932 and 10 December 1942. The book appeared in 1956.

Content

The German Protestant writer, journalist and poet of ecclesiastical songs, Jochen Klepper, loses his creative power over the course of the ten year diaries, under steadily increasing National Socialist reprisals. Klepper's wife Johanna is Jewish, and has two daughters from her first marriage. Klepper's younger step-daughter Renate is threatened with deportation after the outbreak of World War II. Klepper applies for an exit permit for the young girl to go to Sweden, but his request is turned down by the security services. Klepper takes his own life together along the lives of his wife and child in an undistinguished Berlin residential house.