The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959 - Couverture rigide

Klemperer, Victor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1842127438 ISBN 13 : 9781842127438

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson History, 2003

Synopsis

This volume opens in June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse. His sharp observations are now turned on the East German Communist Party, which he himself joins, and he notes many similarities between Nazi and Communist behaviour. Politics, he comes to believe, is above all the choice of the "lesser evil". He is made a professor in Greifswald, then in Berlin and Halle. His wife Eva dies in 1951 but within a year at the age of 70 he marries one of his students, an unlikely but successful love-match. He serves in the GDR's People's Chamber and represents East German scholarship abroad. But it is the details of everyday life, and the honesty and directness, that make these diaries so fascinating.

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À propos de l'auteur

Born in 1881, Victor Klemperer studied in Munich, Geneva and Paris. He served in the German Army in the First World War and was decorated. He was a professor in Dresden until he was dismissed as a result of Nazi laws in 1935. He survived the Holocaust and the war, and taught again as an academic until his death in 1960. Martin Chalmers, the translator of the first two volumes, has also translated this volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1842127438
• ISBN 13: 9781842127438
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 500
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• Personne responsable: non disponible