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Author Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960.

Title The lesser evil : the diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959 / Victor Klemperer ; abridged and translated from the German edition by Martin Chalmers
Published London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003

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 W'PONDS  943.087092 Klempe Kle/Lev  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 637 pages : map, portrait ; 24 cm
Summary 'The third and final volume of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and whose 1933-1945 diaries have already been hailed as one of the twentieth century's most important chronicles. In June 1945 Victor and Eva Klemperer return to their home in the Dresden suburbs, a place last seen in 1940 when they were forced to leave it and live in a Jews' House. Feelings of fairy-tale euphoria alternate with much darker moods. The immediate postwar period produces shocks and revelations: some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse......' (Back of book)
Notes Translation of: So sitze ich denn zwischen allen Stühlen, Tagebücher 1945-1959 (1999)
Also published in Phoenix paperback in 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the German. Originally published as So sitze ich denn zwischen allen Stühlen. Tagebücher 1945-1959
Subject Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960 -- Diaries.
Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960.
Jews -- Germany (East) -- Diaries.
Christian converts from Judaism -- Germany -- Dresden -- Diaries.
French teachers -- Germany (East) -- Diaries.
Jews -- Germany -- Diaries.
SUBJECT Dresden (Germany) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007811
Germany (East) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054666
Germany (East) -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105193
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054599
Genre/Form Diaries.
History.
Autobiographies
Nonfiction
Diaries.
Autobiographies.
Author Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960. Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten
ISBN 0753817942 paperback
1842127438 hardback
Other Titles So sitze ich denn zwischen allen Stühlen. English
Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-195
The diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945-1959