The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the bestwritten, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." 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. His diaries, written...
The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid s...
Die Jahre 1945 bis 1949 spiegeln sich in Victor Klemperers Tagebuchnotizen als eine hchst dramatische Zeit wider. In seinem persnlichen wie im politischen Leben werden jetzt die Weichen gestellt. Klemperer strzt sich in die Arbeit, er kann wieder lehren aber muss sich auch entscheiden, wo knftig sein Platz ist. Mit Besorgnis registriert er Fehlentwicklungen in der deutschen Politik, gleichzeitig kmpft er verzweifelt um die schwierige Bewltigung des Alltags. Als akribischer Chronist hlt er die Entfremdung der politschen Lager fest: bis zur Grndung von zwei deutschen Staaten
Die Jahre 1945 bis 1949 spiegeln sich in Victor Klemperers Tagebuchnotizen als eine hchst dramatische Zeit wider. In seinem persnlichen wie im politis...
Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Victor Klemperer provides a moving and thrilling account of what turned out to be a decisive turning point in the fate of a nation, for the revolution of 1918-9 not only produced the first German democracy, it also heralded the horrors to come.
With the directness of an educated and independent young man, Klemperer turned his hand to political journalism, writing astute, clever and linguistically...
Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most percepti...