To The Bitter End - The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45

The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany. 'Fascinating ... deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany. 'Fascinating ... deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' EVENING STANDARD

Testo aggiuntivo

He has left an extraordinary historical document which in its own way is an invaluable contribution to an understanding not just of Jewish life under the Nazi regime, but of the whole German wartime experience

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Victor Klemperer, Klemperer Victor
• Editore: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.10.2021
• EAN: 9781474623186
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-2318-6
• Pagine: 720
• Dimensioni: 128 mm x 196 mm x 42 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography: general, Diaries, letters & journals, Germany, 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, Relating to Jewish people and groups