I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 - 20th Century - Livres en Anglais

I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945
	Auteur: Victor Klemperer Créateur: Victor Klemperer Éditeur: Modern Library Prix de liste: ~~EUR 13,98~~ Acheter Neuf: EUR 9,42 le 8/9/2010 12:47 CEST détails Vous épargnez: EUR 4,56 (33%) Neuf (10) D'occasion (5) de EUR 9,40 Vendeur: superbookdeals-fr Classement parmi les ventes: 54778 Média: Broché Édition: Reprint Pages: 576 Poids (kg): 1 Dimension (cm): 8 x 5.2 x 1.4 ISBN: 0375756973 EAN: 9780375756979 ASIN: 0375756973 Date de publication: Avril 2001 Disponibilité: Expédition sous 1 à 2 jours ouvrés


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Revues éditoriales: Amazon.com The second volume of Victor Klemperer's searing diary, kept in secret during the 12 years he suffered under the Nazi regime, covers the period from 1942 to 1945. The humiliations visited on even such "privileged" Jews as Klemperer (whose wife was Aryan) grew increasingly severe, with house searches, arbitrary arrests, and brutal beatings becoming virtually routine. The 60-year-old historian is forced to shovel snow despite his heart condition; hunger gnaws at him as rations are mercilessly cut. Yet he clings to an intellectual life, continuing his reading and making notes on the lies and obfuscations of official Nazi discourse that would become his postwar masterpiece, Lingua Tertii Imperii. "The Russians, who have only just been annihilated, are tremendous and quite inexhaustible opponents," he notes sardonically after reading a mendacious fascist article in 1942. His lengthy account of his escape with his wife from Dresden after the Allied bombings of 1945 unforgettably captures the chaos of World War II's final days and the mixed feelings of a Jew who could never wholeheartedly gloat over the defeat of the nation that had persecuted him. Above all, his unflinching depiction of human nature and society in extremis amply justifies his cherished belief that even the Nazis "cannot prevent language from testifying to the truth." --Wendy Smith

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