To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942-1945

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999 - French teacher - 538 pages
"A publishing sensation in Germany, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages in Dresden."

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To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
Victor Klemperer
No preview available - 2000
To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942-1945
Victor Klemperer
No preview available - 1999

About the author (1999)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleTo the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942-1945
Volume 2 of I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, Victor Klemperer
AuthorVictor Klemperer
EditorMartin Chalmers
Translated byMartin Chalmers
Editionabridged, illustrated
PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999
ISBN0297818805, 9780297818809
Length538 pages
  
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