Kafka’s Last Love Letters

Franz Kafka was maybe the most influential writer of the twentieth century. Kafka was a lonely Czech Jew who wrote on human alienation in the face of large, sophisticated bureaucracies. His work is maybe the most studied in the world. Modern researchers value every word he wrote so much that compilations of his work memos have been released. However, some of Kafka's most essential communication is still missing: 35 love letters he wrote with Dora Diamant soon before his death. Kafka's last love letters are the cultural artifacts lost to humanity forever.

Diamant was residing in Berlin in 1933, nine years after Kafka died, and still kept the communication. Unfortunately, being Jewish in Berlin in 1933 was not a pleasant experience. The newly emboldened Nazi party stormed her house one evening, taking or destroying everything inside. Diamant was compelled to quit the city, leaving behind the letters. It is currently believed that they were almost definitely destroyed by the Nazis, however, others believe they were kept in a Soviet archive following World War II until the late 1980s. In any case, they're no longer there.