![]() ![]() Shocking and moving by turns, it is a remarkable and important account. 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. Please note Books which are on order may take up to two weeks to dispatch. ![]() Klemperer remained loyal to his country, determined not to emigrate, and convinced that each successive Nazi act against the Jews must be the last. I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries 193341. Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends. 'it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich.' I Will Bear Witness is a work of. Find I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933. ![]() Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES 'I can't remember when I read a more engrossing book' Antonia Fraser 'Not dissimilar in its cumulative power to Primo Levi's, is a devastating account of man's inhumanity to man' LITERARY REVIEW The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages at Dresden. Compare book prices from over 100,000 booksellers. A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. ![]()
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