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Trans. Martin Chalmers "The best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." -Amos Elon, __The New York Times__ Victor Klemperer risked his life to preserve these diaries so that he could, as he wrote, "bear witness" to the gathering hor-ror of the Nazi regime. The son of a Berlin rabbi, Klemperer was a German patriot who served with honor during the First World War, married a gentile, and converted to Protestantism. He was a professor of Romance languages at the Dresden Technical Institute, a fine scholar and writer, and an intellectual of a somewhat conservative disposition.Unlike many of his Jewish friends and academic colleagues, he feared Hitler from the start, and though he felt little allegiance to any religion, under Nazi law he was a Jew. In the years 1933 to 1941, covered in the first volume of these diaries, Klemperer's life is not yet in danger, but he loses his professorship, his house, even his typewriter; he is not allowed to drive, and since Jews are forbidden to own pets, he must put his cat to death. Because of his military record and marriage to a "full-blooded Aryan," he is spared deportation, but nevertheless, Klemperer

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Author

Victor Klemperer

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679456964

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Judaism

Rating

4.33 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13