20th-century German diarists

Annelies Marie Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim. She gained worldwide notability posthumously for keeping a diary documenting her life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands. In the diary, she regularly described her family's everyday life in their hiding place in an Amsterdam attic from 1942 until their arrest in 1944.

Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)

German children's writer (1899–1974)

German writer (1906–1949)

German general (1884–1972)

German Justice inspector (1885-1970)

German philologist (1881-1960)

wife of American football player O. J. Simpson (1959–1994)

German Wehrmacht general Officer in the Wehrmacht’s Luftwaffe Branch

Last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saxony (1893–1943)

German writer (1929-2008)

author of a diary, discovered in 2004

German writer and poet (1867–1938)

German writer (1903–1942)

German author (1861–1925)

German writer (1920-2004)

German medievalist, author and historian (1888-1941)

German writer and dancer (1902-1989)

German journalist, poet and prisoner in Dachau concentration camp

German medievalist (1867–1955)