![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These diaries are certain to become not only the main primary source for historians of the Nazi period, but also an essential read for anyone who wishes to understand what it was like to be a Jew living in Germany during the 1930s. Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's. The historical record is very much the richer for it' David Pryce-Jones, Financial Times Read more 'This extraordinary book describes in detail, and with unparalleled force and clarity, what it was like to live in Germany under Nazism. Shocking and moving by turns, it is a remarkable and important document. Saved for much of the war from the Holocaust by his marriage to a gentile, he was able to escape in the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden and survived the remaining months of the war in hiding. ssive Nazi act against the Jews must be the last. Throughout, he remained loyal to his country, determined not to emigrate, and convinced that each succe. ![]() Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages at Dresden. I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 ![]()
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