{"id":109327,"date":"2003-04-05T11:08:42","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T16:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109327"},"modified":"2015-10-26T20:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T00:11:40","slug":"victor-klemperer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109327","title":{"rendered":"Victor Klemperer"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have not read the two volumes of Victor Klemperer’s journals entitled I Will Bear Witness<\/em>, then I highly recommend you do so. They are dense, some parts of them are very difficult, (and the typeface, in my opinion, is way too small) — but man, is it a worthwhile experience. The journals are incredibly detailed first-hand accounts of the rise of the Nazi regime, written by a Jewish man, an intellectual, who was married to a German woman. A Christian. <\/p>\n

As the noose tightened, as their options dwindled, as their freedoms were slowly but surely taken from them … he kept to his self-assigned task: that he would bear witness. <\/p>\n

He somehow, somehow, maintained a cold analytical eye (for the most part). He does not put his head in the sand. He analyzes the newspapers, the language of the Nazis … he documents how the Nazis hijacked language, taking over words like power and honor and work and father … and twisted them, made them agents of evil. To me, that is the best part of the book. His deconstruction of the Nazi language. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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