Lewin's diary blog post.

These diaries occur in a stream of consciousness narrative because Lewin is writing down the events as he remembers them, and probably without pausing to think about what he is writing.  He wanted to put into words what he saw and that is it.  This style of writing makes it seem more genuine, less edited or censored.  It feels more like the reader is inside of Lewin’s head this way.  The purpose of this diary is to tell people of this piece of history.  This part of history was incredibly dark and impacted the entire world so it is important that we remember it.  This diary helps us remember it, and it also helps us to learn new things about it.  One could use this text as a historical document in order to tell a more detailed, and more personal view of history.  Instead of simply looking at statistics they can look at specific and detailed events.  The intended audience of this piece is everyone. Historians, victims of the holocaust, and simple every day people are the intended readers of this piece.  Everyone should know of the horrors of the holocaust and this is one way to show them just that.  Lewin’s distance in his writing offers a less biased view of the events.  Emotions become less intertwined with the facts.  By simply stating what happens it allows a reader feel their emotions without being affected by Lewin’s emotions.  I’m not sure there is such a thing as a typical diary, as a diary is something personal and thus something different for each person.  Often though we do see inner thoughts and feelings in a diary but not so much with Lewin’s, and this is something unique.