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To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klempler 1942-45

Door Victor Klemperer

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#340820-XG12
Titel
To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klempler 1942-45
Auteur
Klemperer, Victor
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Jaar van uitgave
1999
ISBN10
0297818805
ISBN13
9780297818809
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
A publishing sensation in Germany (where they have sold over 100,000 copies), 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. Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets. He 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 ... (Lees verder)a diary, for a Jew in Nazi Germany a daring act in itself. Shocking and moving by turns, it is a remarkable and important document, as powerful and astonishing in its way as Anne Frank's classic. The second volume of two, this covers the period from the beginnings of the Holocaust to the end of the war, telling the story of Klemperer's increasing isolation, his near miraculous survival, his awareness of the development of the growing Holocaust as friends and associates disappeared, and his narrow escapes from deportation and the Dresden firebombing in 1945.
Pagina's
538
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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