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Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten

Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten

A Diary of the Nazi Years (I Will Bear Witness)
Biography & MemoirHistory
Pages
519
Published
1998
Language
English

Synopsis

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.

Prose complexity
10/10

Vibe

SadMelancholicInformativeReflective
EpistolarySurvival

Genres

Biography & Memoir History Judaism World War II

About the author

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Victor Klemperer

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...