This third and final volume of the diaries of Klemperer, a German-Jewish professor of philology who survived the Nazis because his wife was Christian, lacks the inherent drama of his life under the ...

Like all good diarists, Klemperer had an eye for detail. The great events of the war scarcely feature except by way of background. Instead he documents the day-to-day life of himself and his ...

Edmund Fawcett is a contributor to several publications, including the (London) Times Literary Supplement. The diaries of Victor Klemperer from the Nazi period were a phenomenon when published a ...

Victor Klemperer, a literary scholar, saw the Nazi era begin in the subtlest of ways, through a shift in language. Trained to examine linguistic nuances, he noticed the Germans around him started to ...

In 1995, the diaries that Victor Klemperer kept during the Third Reich were published in Germany and quickly sold more than 150,000 copies. Now available in English, they are a remarkable testimony to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victor Klemperer, the great diarist of Germany under the Nazis, lived through the upheaval of post-World War I, a period that saw the ...

I am re-reading a Japanese translation of “Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen” (translated into English as “The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist’s Notebook”) by Victor ...