Victor Klemperer
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German philologist and diarist who chronicled life in the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, under Nazi Germany, and in East Germany. His detailed observations are among the most important firsthand accounts of everyday life under Nazism.
Dismissed from his university post as part of the racial policy of Nazi Germany, he survived persecution in Dresden, where he continued his diaries in secret. After 1945, he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and later served as a cultural figure.
His diaries were published in 1995. In English translation, they are divided into three volumes: I Shall Bear Witness, To the Bitter End, and The Lesser Evil. The first two are standard sources on the Nazi era. His LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii (Language of the Third Reich) shows how propaganda in Nazi Germany corrupted German language.
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