I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years

by Victor Klemperer · 1995

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Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frankand Elie Wiesel's Nightas one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witnessis a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from Hitler's Germany. Volume Two begins in 1942, the year the Final Solution was formally proposed, and carries us through to the Allied bombing of Dresden and Germany's defeat.

Subject
historybiography
Genre
war and military
Themes
history
Setting
World War IIHolocaustGermanyEurope
Audience
adult
Length
long · 576 pages
Form
diary

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