The Klemperer Diaries: v.1 & 2. (Vol 1 & 2)
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1842120220 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1072 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-28 |
| Language | : | German |
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The End of a Chronicle of Epic Proportion Richard C. Geschke This is the continuation of Victor Klemperer's diaries written as a German Jew during the 12 year Nazi reign. As in "I shall Bear Witness" Victor continues to chronicle the proceedings of German life in Dresden during World War II. I've assigned 5 Stars to this work. The 5 Stars are for Mr. Klemperer's audac. A Harrowing Look At Life In The Final Years Of Nazi Germany As with Volume One (see my review), the most disarming and appealing feature of this tome is its slow and ineluctable building of suspense and empathy as World War I veteran Klemperer steadily weaves the day to day details of his life in Nazi Germany in the 12 years of that regime into a portrait of a rogue . A Jew in Nazi Germany History Reader This is the second in the series of 3 volumes of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jewish Professor who lived in Dresden with a non-Jewish wife during Nazi rule. It is undoubtedly the best perspective on what it meant to be a jew at the time. "I will bear witness", he repeated several times throughout his d
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 survived the Holocaust and the war and taught again as an academic until his death in 1960. About the Author Born in 1881, the son of a rabbi, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. . 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
They tell the story of Klemperer's increasing isolation, his near miraculous survival, his awareness of the development of the growing Holocaust as friends and associates disappeared, and his narrow escapes from deportation and the Dresden firebombing in 1945.. 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. Shocking and moving by turns, it is a remarkable and important document, as powerful and astonishing in its way as Anne Frank's classic. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages in Dresden.
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. Born in 1881, the son of a rabbi, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. He survived the Holocaust and the war and taught again as an academic until his death in 1960.