Books by Victor Klemperer

The third and final volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and whose diaries have been hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.

A publishing sensation in German, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.

Forfatteren tog fra nazismens begyndelse noter til sin analyse af Det Tredje Riges sprog, og resultatet udkom på tysk i 1947. Bogen dokumenterer i detaljer, hvorledes nazitidens sprog på samme tid var et spejl og et kompas. I spejlet sås mentalitet og hensigt, i kompasset lå regimets kurs udstukket. ****** JP ****** Politiken. Noter og efterskrift af oversætter og germanist Henning Vangsgaard.

Victor Klemperer was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan. Presenting a study of language and its engagement with history, this book draws form Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture.

Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history.