CHALMERS, Martin (abridged and translated from the German edition by) I SHALL BEAR WITNESS. The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1933-1941 , London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 0297818422 Book and dustjacket in fine condition. xxiii, 500pp, including, Notes, Chronology and Index. With frontispiece, and 3 maps. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was in 1933, a professor of romance languages in Dresden. During the next decade, like other German Jews, he lost his job, his house and many of his friends. Throughout he remained loyal to his country. Unlike others he managed to escape the concentration camps, largely due to his marriage to an Aryan. In 1945, just as he had been summoned for deportation, he was able to escape in the aftermath of the bombing of Dresden and remained many months in hiding, Throughout, Klemperer kept a diary, for a Jew in Nazi Germany, a daring act in itself. This is the first of two volumes and covers the period from Hitler's election to the beginnings of the holocaust. (9½"h x 6¼"w) (24cms x 16cms) approx. (Book ref. 6912)  £22.50

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