It was slightly more than a century ago, in November 1918, that revolution swept through Germany, bringing chaos to a country that, in the final days of World War I, was already in desperate straits ...

The diary of Victor Klemperer, a Jew who survived in Germany through the long nightmare of Nazism, has been a best seller in Europe since 1995. Now, at last published in English translation, it shines ...

Like all good diarists, Klemperer had an eye for detail. The great events of the war scarcely feature except by way of background. Instead he documents the day-to-day life of himself and his ...

Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste It's a strange phenomenon that the victims of genocide are frequently the sole witnesses to the atrocities directed at them. In the case ...

This third and final volume of the diaries of Klemperer, a German-Jewish professor of philology who survived the Nazis because his wife was Christian, lacks the inherent drama of his life under the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victor Klemperer, the great diarist of Germany under the Nazis, lived through the upheaval of post-World War I, a period that saw the ...

Victor Klemperer, a literary scholar, saw the Nazi era begin in the subtlest of ways, through a shift in language. Trained to examine linguistic nuances, he noticed the Germans around him started to ...

In 1995, the diaries that Victor Klemperer kept during the Third Reich were published in Germany and quickly sold more than 150,000 copies. Now available in English, they are a remarkable testimony to ...

I am re-reading a Japanese translation of “Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen” (translated into English as “The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist’s Notebook”) by Victor ...