The Klemperer Diaries by Victor Klemperer

The Klemperer Diaries by Victor Klemperer

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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.

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The Klemperer Diaries 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.
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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ISBN 13 9780297818427
ISBN 10 0297818422
Title The Klemperer Diaries
Author Victor Klemperer
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 1998-05-25
Number of pages 400
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.