I Will Bear Witness

¸±±êÌâ: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 (Modern Library Paperbacks)

ISBN: 9780375753787

³ö°æÉç: Modern Library

³ö°æÄê: 1999-11-15

Ò³Êý: 544

¶¨¼Û: USD 18.00

×°Ö¡: Paperback

ÄÚÈݼò½é

March 10, 1933--"January 30: Hitler Chancellor. What, up to election, I called terror, was a mild prelude. On Saturday I heard a part of Hitler's speech from K?nigsberg. The front of a hotel at the railway station, illuminated, a torchlight procession. . . . I understood only occasional words. But the tone! The unctuous bawling, truly bawling, of a priest." Struggling to complete his ambitious history of eighteenth-century France, Victor Klemperer loses his professorship, then his car, his phone, his house, even his typewriter, under the ever-tightening Nazi grip. Not since the diary of Anne Frank has a secret journal burst onto the scene with such mesmerizing urgency. I Will Bear Witness is a testament of rare eloquence and humanity by the most astute witness ever to emerge from Hitler's Germany. It is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day terror of the Nazi years.