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The Klemperer Diaries Victor Klemperer

The Klemperer Diaries By Victor Klemperer

The Klemperer Diaries by Victor Klemperer


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Summary

The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was, by 1993, a professor of languages in Dresden. Over the next decade, like other German Jews, he lost everything except his life, keeping that by virtue of his marriage to a gentile. Throughout everything he kept diaries, which are reproduced here.

The Klemperer Diaries Summary

The Klemperer Diaries: v. 1: I Shall Bear Witness, 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer

The diaries of a Jew in Nazi Germany; the most important documnet to emerge from the period since the publication of The Diary Of Anne Frank.The first of two volumes, this covers the period from Hitler's election to the beginning of the holocaust.

About Victor Klemperer

Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. He was ajournalist in Berlin, taught at the University of Naples and received a DSM during WWI as a volunteer in the German army. He was subsequently a professorof romance languages at the Dresden Technical College until he was dismissedas a consequence of Nazi laws in 1935. He survived the Holocaust and the war

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GOR001643323
9780297818427
0297818422
The Klemperer Diaries: v. 1: I Shall Bear Witness, 1933-41 by Victor Klemperer
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
19980525
400
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