![]() ![]() This symphony of voices is ordered by the brilliant, grumbling Klemperer, struggling to complete his work on eighteenth-century France while documenting the ever- tightening Nazi grip. All offer their thoughts and theories on the progress of the war: Will England hold out? Who listens to Goebbels? How much longer will it last? What makes this book so remarkable, aside from its literary distinction, is Klemperer's preoccupation with the thoughts and actions of ordinary Germans: Berger the greengrocer, who was given Klemperer's house ("anti-Hitlerist, but of course pleased at the good exchange"), the fishmonger, the baker, the much-visited dentist. His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany. ![]() ![]() I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years.Ī 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. ![]() The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. ![]()
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