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I shall bear witness : the diaries of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 / abridged and translated from the German edition by Martin Chalmers.

By: Chalmers, Martin.
Contributor(s): Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960. Ich will Zeugnis is ablegen bis zum letzten.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Phoenix, 1999Description: xxx, 636 p. : maps, 1 port. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0753806843; 9780753806845.Uniform titles: Ich will Zeugnis is ablegen bis zum letzten. English Subject(s): Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960 -- Diaries | World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Personal narratives, Jewish | Jews -- Germany -- History -- 20th century | Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 | Jews -- Germany -- Diaries | Biography | Autobiography: general | Diaries, letters & journals | Biography: general | Memoirs | The Holocaust | Second World War | Social groups: religious groups & communities | Germany | Inter-war period c 1919 to c 1939 | European history | Germany -- History -- 1933-1945DDC classification: 940.53 CHA Summary: The diary of Victor Klemperer from 1933 to 1941. Like other German Jews, Klemperer lost his job, his house, and many of his friends, but he remained loyal to his country. Saved for much of the war by his marriage to a gentile, he survived the remaining months of the war in hiding.

This translation originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1998.

Includes index.

The diary of Victor Klemperer from 1933 to 1941. Like other German Jews, Klemperer lost his job, his house, and many of his friends, but he remained loyal to his country. Saved for much of the war by his marriage to a gentile, he survived the remaining months of the war in hiding.

Translated from the German.