I Will Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer - Hardcover

Klemperer, Victor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679456961 ISBN 13: 9780679456964

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1998

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. 8vo pp. XXII + 520 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)

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Providing a vivid portrait of the everyday horrors of Nazi Germany, the secret journals of the acclaimed German-Jewish historian offer a definitive account of the rise of Nazism, the current events of the era, the progess of the war, Hitler, and the nightmare of his Jewish life during World War II. 50,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker.

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ion of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of the Nazi years.
        
A 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. His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany.
        
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 ("

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679456961
• ISBN 13: 9780679456964
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352