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A publishing sensation the publication of Victor Klemperers diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period
A classic Klemperers diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Franks SUNDAY TIMES
I cant remember when I read a more engrossing book Antonia Fraser
Not dissimilar in its cumulative power to Primo Levis is a devastating account of mans inhumanity to man LITERARY REVIEW
The son of a rabbi Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages at Dresden Over the next decade he like other German Jews lost his job his house and many of his friends
Klemperer remained loyal to his country determined not to emigrate and convinced that each successive Nazi act against the Jews must be the last 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 Throughout Klemperer kept a diary Shocking and moving by turns it is a remarkable and important account
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