I Will Bear Witness (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Victor Klemperer
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1933-1945
- Setting: Germany and Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Twentieth century, 1940’s, World War II, Intermarriage, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Holocaust, Jewish, Jews and Gentiles
- Locales: Europe, Germany
The first volume of I Will Bear Witness, Victor Klemperer’s diary about his life as an endangered Jew in Nazi Germany, ends with the New Year’s Eve observation that 1941 was the most dreadful year that he and Eva, his non-Jewish wife, had experienced. On Klemperer’s mind were the ever more constrained and dangerous conditions that the intensification of war and Nazi anti-Semitism inflicted upon them. In late June, the Germans had invaded the Soviet Union. That autumn, German Jews were ordered to wear the “yellow star,” and the Nazis halted all Jewish emigration from...
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