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Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German Professor of Romance Languages from 1920 until 1935 at the Technical University of Dresden who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published posthumously in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Fascist Third Reich, and ...
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.
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.
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.
Contemporary readers of Klemperer's astonishing I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 are struck by the unexpected details the diarist notes from his daily life. Klemperer demonstrates how the influence of Nazism was pervasive and penetrated every facet of daily life.
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.
To appreciate the power of Klemperer’s simple statement, however, you have first to read the preceding 1,200 pages of diaries – one of the most detailed, compelling and revealing human documents from the Nazi period.
Klemperer Online Tutorial. For the first time, the database makes available the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemperer, which are among the most important sources of 20th-century German history.
Aug 28, 2017 · Victor Klemperer's Diaries of the Nazi Years (1933-1945) WOLFGANG MIEDER Scholars of language and culture who study the use and misuse of the German language during the twelve years of the Nazi reign have regarded the philologist and literary scholar Victor Klemperer as a key figure for decades.
Klemperer's distinguished military record as a front-line soldier in the First World War. Whatever the explanation, he never knew from day to day, even from hour to hour, whether he would survive, which makes his words truly gripping reading. Klemperer's diary, which he had kept since age seventeen, became for him