Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. He was a journalist in Berlin, taught at the University of Naples and received a DSM during WWI as a volunteer in the German army. He was subsequently a professor of romance languages at the Dresden Technical College until he was dismissed as a consequence of Nazi laws in 1935. He survived the Holocaust and the war and taught again as an academic until his death in 1960.
La voluntad de Victor Klemperer de dejar testimonio de su vida bajo el terror nazi se plasmó en unas cinco mil páginas de diarios. Escritos bajo constante peligro de muerte por su condición de judío -su matrimonio con una mujer aria lo salvó de la deportación-, se convirtieron varias...
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