I Shall Bear Witness

The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41

Victor Klemperer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

672 Seiten

2009
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-0-7538-0684-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.8.2009
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	132 x 198 mm
Gewicht	444 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Schlagworte	Drittes Reich; Tagebuch • Englisch; Biografien/Erinnerungen • Englisch; Tagebuch • Judenverfolgung (Nationalsozialismus); Berichte/Erinnerungen • Klemperer, Victor
ISBN-10	0-7538-0684-3 / 0753806843
ISBN-13	978-0-7538-0684-5 / 9780753806845
Zustand	Neuware