I Shall Bear Witness - The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41

A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. 'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES

About the author

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.

Summary

A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. 'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES

Additional text

Marvellous, depressing, witty, sardonic, devastating

Product details

• Authors: Victor Klemperer, Klemperer Victor
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.10.2021
• EAN: 9781474623179
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-2317-9
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 44 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography: general, Diaries, letters & journals, HISTORY / Military / World War II, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, HISTORY / Holocaust, Memoirs, HISTORY / Jewish, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Relating to Jewish people and groups