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The lesser evil : the diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959 / Victor Klemperer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960--Diaries.
- Klemperer, Victor.
- Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960.
- Jews--Germany--Diaries.
- Jews.
- Germany--History--1945-1955.
- Germany.
- History.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 637 pages ; 24cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.
- Summary:
- This final volume of Victor Klemperer's diaries opens in 1945. After the horrors of the war, Victor and Eva's return to their Dresden home seems like a fairytale. Victor tries to resume his distinguished academic career and joins East Germany's Communist Party. In 1951, Eva dies; a year later, aged 70, Victor marries a student-an unlikely but successful love match. But with the growing repression of the Communist Party, and the memory of those who did not survive, Victor's achievements ring hollow. Politics, he comes to believe, is, above all, the choice of "the lesser evil." A masterpiece both of Holocaust literature and memoir.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Translated from the German: So sitze ich denn zwischen allen Stühlen, Tagebücher 1945-1959 (1999).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1842127438
- OCLC:
- 52486513
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