Description
Volume 1: 1933 – 1941
Volume 2: 1942 – 1945
Abridged & translated from the German edition by Martin Chalmers
Preface by Martin Gilbert
Yet all discomfort fades before the cumulative power of the record that Klemperer has left for posterity. His observations, including pitiless self-examinations, are unblinking; his reflections are remarkable for their precision and their penetration. Even though one may balk at one or another of his positions, his personal history of how the Third Reich month by month, sometimes week by week, accelerated its crusade against the Jews gives as accurate a picture of Nazi trickery and brutality as we are likely to have. Nothing is too casual or too portentous to escape him, including the increasing likelihood of a violent death. (New York Times)
