Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German philologist and diarist. His journals, published posthumously in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the fascist Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic. Three volumes of his diaries have been published in English translations: I Shall Bear Witness, To the Bitter End, and The Lesser Evil. The first two, which cover the period of the Third Reich, have become standard sour...
Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten
Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten
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Victor Klemperer's diaries offer a firsthand account of life as a Jewish man in Dresden, Germany, during the Nazi regime. From 1933 to 1945, Klemperer meticulously documented the daily persecutions, the erosion of rights, and the constant threat faced by Jewish citizens. This powerful personal narrative provides an invaluable historical record of the Holocaust, revealing the insidious nature of National Socialism through the eyes of a philologist determined to bear witness.
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I shall bear witnessUnknown, 1998
400 pages
Weidenfeld & NicolsonLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97802978184275 editions available
