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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. Modern Library Edition. The publication of Victor Klemperers 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 daybyday horror of the Nazi yearsA 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 Hitlers GermanyWhat makes this book so remarkable aside from its literary distinction is Klemperers preoccupation with the thoughts and actions of ordinary Germans Berger the greengrocer who was given Klemperers house antiHitlerist but of course pleased at the good exchange the fishmonger the baker the muchvisited dentist All offer their thoughts and theories on the progress of the war Will England hold out Who listens to Goebbels How much longer will it lastThis symphony of voices is ordered by the brilliant grumbling Klemperer struggling to complete his work on eighteenthcentury France while documenting the ever tightening Nazi grip He loses first his professorship and then his car his phone his house even his typewriter and is forced to move into a Jews House the last step before the camps put his cat to death Jews may not own pets and suffer countless other indignitiesDespite the danger his diaries would pose if discovered Klemperer sees it as his duty to record events I continue to write he notes in 1941 after a terrifying runin with the police This is my heroics I want to bear witness precise witness until the very end When a neighbor remarks that in his isolation Klemperer will not be able to cover the main events of the war he writes Its not the big things that are important but the everyday life of tyranny which may be forgotten A thousand mosquito bites are worse than a blow on the head I observe I note the mosquito bitesThis book covers the years from 1933 to 1941 Volume Two from 1941 to 1945 will be published in 1999. Codice articolo DADAX0375753788
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