The Klemperer Diaries I Shall Bear Witness, 1933-41 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753806843 ISBN 13: 9780753806845

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Synopsis

A publishing sensation in German, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages at Dresden. Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends.Throughout, he remained loyal to his country, determined not to emigrate, and convinced that each successive Nazi act against the Jews must be the last. 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. Throughout, Klemperer kept a diary. Shocking and moving by turns, it is a remarkable and important document.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. He was a journalist 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 professor of romance languages at the Dresden Technical College until he was dismissed as a consequence of Nazi laws in 1935. He survived the Holocaust and the war and taught again as an academic until his death in 1960.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• ISBN 10: 0753806843
• ISBN 13: 9780753806845
• Binding: Paperback