Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht
Angaben zur Quelle:
49,7-8 (1998) 440-446
Keywords:
Klemperer, Victor,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
Abstract:
Quoting extensively from Klemperer's diary, discusses his identity as a German and a Jew (although he converted to Protestantism in 1906) during the Nazi regime. A professor of romance languages, he was forced to retire in 1935. Because his wife was Aryan, he was exposed to serious antisemitic threats only from 1940, when the couple had to move to a "Jewish house". Childless, they were considered as a non-privileged mixed marriage. He had to wear a yellow star and lived in constant fear of arrest or deportation. Klemperer recorded all the events of his daily life, and also discussed works of Nazi racial theory, such as Rosenberg's "Mythos", Goebbels' "Das Reich", and Hitler's "Mein Kampf".
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