I Will Bear Witness 1933-1941

The most moving and important documents of life during the Holocaust to emerge in the last decade are the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German Jew whose life was spared because of his marriage to an "Aryan" but who lost almost everything else as he struggled to survive. His meticulous, thoughtful, and wholly unsentimental accounts of daily life reveal the banalities of virulent state hatred and the grand horror created by the amalgam of a nation turned against its citizens and a world at war.