Victor Klemperer

The author recounts daily life under the Nazis from Hitler's rise to power to the eve of World War II, describing the gradual tightening of Nazi control over every aspect of his life

A Diary of the Nazi Years

I Will Bear Witness

Victor Klemperer was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan. Presenting a study of language and its engagement with history, this book draws form Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture.

LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii

Language of the Third Reich

Martin Chalmers

'The third and final volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and whose 1933-1945 diaries have already been hailed as one of the twentieth century's most important chronicles. In June 1945 Victor and Eva Klemperer return to their home in the Dresden suburbs, a place last seen in 1940 when they were forced to leave it and live in a Jews' House. Feelings of fairy-tale euphoria alternate with much darker moods. The immediate postwar period produces shocks and revelations: some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse......' (Back of book)

So Sitze Ich Denn Zwischen Allen Stühlen. English

Tagebücher 1933 - 1945

Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten

To the Bitter End the Diaries 45

[Was bedeutet das alles?]

»Die Sprache des Dritten Reiches«. Beobachtungen und Reflexionen aus LTI

Dagboek van de Duits-joodse schrijver/filoloog/filosoof over de periode januari 1933-juni 1945.

Tot het bittere einde

Tussen de wal en het schip. Dagboek 1945-1959

Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten. Tagebücher 1933-45. Eine Auswahl.

Jessica Spengler

Diary of a Revolution

Munich 1919

"Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his university post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan. From 1933 to 1935 Klemperer kept detailed diaries, which contain in note form some of the raw material for the German edition of LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii. First published in 1957, The Language of the Third Reich arose from Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture. As Klemperer writes: 'It isn't only Nazi actions that have to vanish, but also the Nazi cast of mind, the typical Nazi way of thinking, and its breeding ground: the language of Nazism.' This brilliant book is by turns entertaining and profound, saddening and horrifying. It is deservedly one of the great twentieth-century studies of language and its engagement with history. Translated by Dr. Martin Brady"--

LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii : a philologist's notebook

The Language of the Third Reich

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 'I can't remember when I read a more engrossing book' Antonia Fraser 'Not dissimilar in its cumulative power to Primo Levi's, is a devastating account of man's 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.

The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41

I Shall Bear Witness

Notizbuch eines Philologen

Bir filologun notları

LTI Nasyonal sosyalizmin dili

dagböcker 1933-1945

Intill slutet vill jag vittna

The author's diary entries detail daily life in the Third Reich. The diaries contain accounts of events witnessed, conversations overheard, and character studies of victims, victimizers, fanatics, and opportunists in Nazi Germany.

Under the Third Reich, the official language of Nazism came to be used as a political tool. This is Klemperer's study of the characteristic literary forms and usages of the Nazi regime, and analysis of their impact on German language, life and culture.

LTI, Lingua Tertii Imperii : a Philologist's Notebook

Polish Canadian Publishing Fund

LTI, lingua Tertii Imperii : notatnik filologa

The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles. 'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply engrossing' SPECTATOR 'Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank' SUNDAY TIMES 'A vivid and powerful account of a remarkable life' SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse. His sharp observations are now turned on the East German Communist Party, which he himself joins, and he notes many similarities between Nazi and Communist behaviour. Politics, he comes to believe, is above all the choice of the "lesser evil". He serves in the GDR's People's Chamber and represents East German scholarship abroad. But it is the details of everyday life, and the honesty and directness, that make these bestselling diaries so fascinating.

Victor Klemperer

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