I Shall Bear Witness
- Author Victor Klemperer
- Narrator Roger Davis
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 1 day, 3 hours and 4 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: historical, political and military, Biography: general, Diaries, letters and journals, Second World War, The Holocaust.
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What to expect
'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES
'I can't remember when I read a more engrossing book' Antonia Fraser
'Not dissimilar in its cumulative power to Primo Levi's, is a devastating account of man's inhumanity to man' LITERARY REVIEW
The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages at Dresden. Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends.
Klemperer remained loyal to his country, determined not to emigrate, and convinced that each successive Nazi act against the Jews must be the last. Saved for much of the war from the Holocaust by his marriage to a gentile, he was able to escape in the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden and survived the remaining months of the war in hiding. Throughout, Klemperer kept a diary. Shocking and moving by turns, it is a remarkable and important account.
Critics Review
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This is a classic … Klemperer’s diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank’s … These diaries are certain to become not only the main primary source for historians of the Nazi period, but also an essential read for anyone who wishes to understand what it was like to be a Jew living in Germany during the 1930s. But perhaps it is even more than that … Read this wonderful book and judge for yourself
SUNDAY TIMES -
I can’t remember when I read a more engrossing book
SUNDAY TIMES -
This extraordinary book describes in detail, and with unparalleled force and clarity, what it was like to live in Germany under Nazism. The historical record is very much the richer for it
FINANCIAL TIMES -
It is not the horror of the Holocaust we see here, but the subtle, barely discernible corruption of daily life
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH -
Authoritative … Victor Klemperer’s detailed eye-witness chronicle, not dissimilar in its cumulative power to Primo Levi’s, is a devastating account of man’s inhumanity to man
LITERARY REVIEW -
His diaries are not only a harrowingly poignant record of the suffering of just one victimised married couple among countless others. They are also a testament to the restitution that the world still owes to those non-Aryans on whose plight too many turned their backs
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