Victor Klemperers Tagebücher (German Edition)

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East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. Still, the word comes to be identical to death or killing, or murder , so that he says in a later part, after engaging in a dangerous conversation that could lead to his deportation: Sufficient for concentration camp and attempt to escape Finally, interesting to see how dire the economic situation was in Germany throughout the Nazi regime, even before the war, even during the years of successful Nazi campaigns; there was lack and loss of currency value and rationing early on that affected everyone of course, jews and other declared enemies of the Nazis got it extra hard.

An important reality check for all right-wing revisionists who today glorify the Nazi time as one of success and plenty. The publication history is unexpected: Klemperer was aware of his role as a comtemporary witness and de facto historian and clung to writing his diary despite the constant danger he put himself into death for writing against the regime, basically , as well as his wife and the non-jewish friend who hid the manuscript for them.

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Many times in his daily notes he agonizes whether this huge risk is really worth it. And yet, after the war when he regained his position as respected professor, he ironically decided against publishing his diary My diary re-reading reinforces my conviction that LTI [Lingua Tertii Imperii] is much more suitable for publication tha the actual diary. It is unshaped, it puts a strain on [or: And so it was that his unfiltered report was made available to the general public only fifty years after the end of the war, in , to massive success.

My only gripe is with the ebook edition, which doesn't highlight nor link the endnotes in the main text so if I come across a name or abbreviation that I don't know, I have to highlight it, search for it in the entire book and check if there's a hit at the very end with an endnote That is just a poor usage of the format. Jan 22, M.

Nov 04, Maurice rated it really liked it Recommends it for: How readily the germans facilitated the nazi persecution of the jews. And how readily intellectual freedom may be subverted by politicians pandering to the worst in any nation. Richard Elferink rated it really liked it Feb 26, Verena rated it really liked it Jul 14, Jan rated it it was amazing Oct 24, Mondhuhn rated it it was amazing Jul 26, Elquee rated it it was amazing Jan 07, Bellis rated it liked it Oct 01, Susanne rated it it was amazing Jan 12, Cathi rated it it was amazing Jun 03, Herbert rated it really liked it May 06, Klemperer and his fellow Jews became aware only gradually of the nature of atrocities and scale of "extermination" at camps such as Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, even as they watched friends and neighbors deported and their risk of deportation mounted.

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On 13 February , the day preceding the night bombing of Dresden , Klemperer witnessed the delivery of notices of deportation to some of the last remaining members of the Jewish community in Dresden. Fearful that the authorities would soon also send him to his death, he used the confusion in the wake of the Allied bombings to remove his yellow star on 19 February, join a refugee column, and escape into American-controlled territory.

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Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. This diary also details the Nazis' perversion of the German language for propaganda purposes in entries that Klemperer used as the basis for his postwar book LTI — Lingua Tertii Imperii. During the pogrom later in November their house was searched by Nazis who found Klemperer's saber from World War I—he was arrested briefly and released. Eventually the Klemperers were forced to put down their household cat, a tomcat named Muschel, because of a restriction as to Jews' ownership of pets. Wikiquote has quotations related to: Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Dresden , East Germany.

After the war, Klemperer joined the communist Socialist Unity Party of Germany , and recovered a university post at the University of Leipzig. He became a significant cultural figure in East Germany , lecturing at the universities of Greifswald , Berlin and Halle. He was a delegate of the Cultural Association of the GDR in the GDR's Parliament Volkskammer from to , and frequently mentions in his later diary his frustration at its lack of power and its largely ceremonial role.

It was an immediate literary sensation and rapidly became a bestseller in Germany. An English translation of the years spanning the Nazi seizure of power through Klemperer's death has appeared in three volumes: In , Victor Klemperer was posthumously awarded the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for his work, Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten. In , Stan Neumann directed a documentary based on Klemperer's diaries, La langue ne ment pas Language does not lie , which considers the importance of Klemperer's observations and the role of the witness in extreme situations.

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