Particularly harrowing are accounts of 'suicides', household searches, and evacuations of friends, mostly to Theresienstadt. This diary also insightfully details the Nazis' perversion of the German language for propaganda purposes, which Klemperer would use as the basis for his later book LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii.Ĭhiefly, Klemperer's diary chronicles the daily life of restricted Jews during the Nazi terror, including the onset of a succession of prohibitions concerning many aspects of everyday existence (e.g., finances, transportation, medical care, the maintenance and use of household help, food and diet, and the possession of appliances, newspapers, and other items).
Two of the three volumes of his diaries that have been published in English translation, "I shall bear witness" and "To the bitter end," concern this period. He kept a diary, which, from 1933 through the end of the war, provides an exceptional historical and humane account of day-to-day life under the tyranny of the Third Reich. In Nazi Germanyĭespite his conversion to Protestantism in 1912 and his strong identification with German culture, Klemperer's life started to worsen considerably after the Nazi rise to power in 1933. From 1914 to 1915, Klemperer lectured at the University of Naples, after which he became a decorated military volunteer of World War I. He completed his doctorate (on Montesquieu) in 1913 and was habilitated under the supervision of Karl Vossler in 1914. He was a student of philosophy, Romance and German studies at universities in Munich, Geneva, Paris and Berlin from 1902 to 1905 and later worked as a journalist and writer in Berlin until he continued his studies in Munich from 1912. Victor Klemperer attended several Gymnasien. Victor Klemperer was first cousin once removed of actor Werner Klemperer through Otto, Werner's father. Wilhelm Klemperer, wife Henriette Frankel), cousin to conductor Otto Klemperer and brother to the surgeon Georg Klemperer, a personal physician to Lenin.
Klemperer was born in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) to a Jewish family.
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