The Book Depository I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1 by Victor Klemperer
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Description: I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1 : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780375753787 : 0375753788 : 15 Nov 1999 : Richer and far more disturbing than Anne Frank's journal (Time), I Will Bear Witness is a landmark publication--one of the most vivid accounts ever to emerge from Hitler's Germany. The Book Depository I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1 by Victor Klemperer - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780375753787
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Author: Sally
Rating: 5
Review: My feed back is the same for this book, as it is i gave for the follow on book. I can honestly say that i got engrossed with every page the more i read the angrier i could feel myself getting. To loss everything bit by bit not knowing from one day to the next what new decree would be announced. I know i wouldnt survive living in a environment like that .
Author: J F G Shearmur
Rating: 3
Review: Klemperer's diaries are interesting, but seem to me badly ujnder-edited, in the sense that the book would have been improved by the addition of full editorial footnotes which explained what the developments were to which he was reacting. He was, late on, badly affected by horrible legislation directed against day-to-day aspects of the life of Jews. But just what were these? Their content is seldom fully clear from what he writes, and they are things which would only be known to experts on the period. What happened to him - and to other Jews over this period - was terrible. But he seemed to make a mess of things all on his own. He regularly undertook expenditure which he could not afford. He was assisted by gifts from his brother, concerning which he seemed miserably ungenerous. And he claimed that he was not in a position to move - when lots of people were begging him to do so - when it was clear that he had linguistic skills which would have made moving a real possibility. All told, having such a detailed account is really valuable. But it seemed to me in some ways spoiled by the fact that the author was complaining almost as much at the start, as he was whyen facing really terrible things at the end.
