Impresii despre Berlinul în timp de război — din Jurnalul lui Maximilian Hacman

Radu Bruja

doi:10.31861/hj2026.63.88-95

Authors

Radu Bruja Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1102-6444

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31861/hj2026.63.88-95

Keywords:

Max Hacman, Journal, Berlin, war, the National Socialist regime, moods

Abstract

One of the goals of historiography could be to focus on making memoirs compatible with documentary historical literature. In our analysis, we captured the image of Berlin in the midst of a world war, as revealed in the pages of Professor Maximilian Hacman’s Journal. Remaining unpublished, the Journal offers sequential images about the characteristics of the National Socialist regime, about the opposition to it, about the moods captured by the memoirist among both ordinary Berliners and the intellectual elite in the capital of the Reich. In the pages of the Journal, we are given details about personalities of the Reich who oppose the war, attitudes, behaviors and everyday patterns, including group psychology, honestly rendered by a Germanophile who is also an opponent of the National Socialist ideology. Originally from Bukovina, Maximilian Hacman stayed in Berlin between October 1940 and September 1941, surprising the capital of the Third Reich at the height of its power. The pages of Hacman’s Diary are unpublished, completing the general, well-known image of a brutal reality: the world’s greatest conflagration.

Author Biography

Radu Bruja, Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Humanistic and Social-Political Sciences,
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

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