Bibliograph

The lesser evil, the diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959, Victor Klemperer ; abridged and translated from the German edition by Martin Chalmers

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The lesser evil, the diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959, Victor Klemperer ; abridged and translated from the German edition by Martin Chalmers

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The lesser evil

Oclc number

52486513

Responsibility statement

Victor Klemperer ; abridged and translated from the German edition by Martin Chalmers

Sub title

the diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

Summary

This final volume of Victor Klemperer's diaries opens in 1945. After the horrors of the war, Victor and Eva's return to their Dresden home seems like a fairytale. Victor tries to resume his distinguished academic career and joins East Germany's Communist Party. In 1951, Eva dies; a year later, aged 70, Victor marries a student- an unlikely but successful love match. But with the growing repression of the Communist Party, and the memory of those who did not survive, Victor's achievements ring hollow. Politics, he comes to believe, is, above all, the choice of "the lesser evil." A masterpiece both of Holocaust literature and memoir

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