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Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Fascist Third Reich, and the communist German Democratic Republic.
Jan 17, 2024 · Victor Klemperer considered himself a German above all else. His diaries of life in the Third Reich chronicle his painful awakening to violent antisemitism.
Feb 9, 2016 · I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years. A Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933.
LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen (1947) is a book by Victor Klemperer, Professor of Literature at the Dresden University of Technology.
Nov 15, 1999 · I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years. A Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933.
Aug 6, 2018 · On May 27, 1941, Victor Klemperer found himself ensnared in a familiar paradoxical loop. As the diarist sat down that evening to chronicle the news of the day, he displayed an alarming comfort with discomfiting events.
Jan 1, 2001 · This diary of Victor Klemperer spans the period from 1933 to 1941. The narrative starts with the Nazis coming to power and ends when WWII is in full swing. Klemperer was a German Jew, son of a rabbi. He converted to Protestantism, served in the army during WWI, and won a distinction.
Apr 3, 2001 · Victor Klemperer’s “I Will Bear Witness Vol. 2” (and 1) is the single greatest non-fiction book I know. His diary recounts what it was like to live as an everyday German (of Jewish descent even though he was a Christian married to his soulmate (an Aryan), Eva, under the increasing degradation of society under the Nazis.
Jan 10, 2019 · Observing all this chaos was the writer and academic Victor Klemperer. An assimilated German Jew and aspiring professor, Klemperer was a bookish man, a specialist in Romance literature and the...
I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years. A Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication, Klemperer recognized the danger of Hitler as early as 1933.
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