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Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German literary scholar and diarist.His journals, published posthumously in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the fascist Third Reich, and the communist German Democratic Republic.
Lingua Tertii Imperii studies the way that Nazi propaganda altered the German language to inculcate people with the ideas of Nazism.The book was written in the form of personal notes which Klemperer wrote in his diary, especially from the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, and even more after 1935, when Klemperer was stripped of his academic title because he was of Jewish descent.
Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) [1] was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogan's Heroes , for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969.
Cohn's diaries are preserved in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem and were first published in December 2006. Cohn is considered along with Victor Klemperer as one of the most important chroniclers of the crimes of the Nazis against the Jewish people.
Victor Klemperer writes in his diaries of 13 November 1938 and 6 December: "In Leipzig we also experienced the billion-dollar fine that the German people had issued the Jews. In the property tax, on the other hand, we seem to benefit from our poverty.
Otto Nossan Klemperer (German: [ˌɔto ˈklɛmʁpəʁɐ] ⓘ; 14 May 1885 – 6 July 1973) was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain.
Diarists who wrote diaries concerning the Holocaust (1941-1945). English translations of some of these diaries are commercially available, for example Anne Frank's, Eva Heyman's, Janusz Korczak's. Janina Altman - a Jewish diarist in the Lwow Ghetto. Survived the Shoah and war.
February 13–15 – The bombing of Dresden in World War II is seen by the German Jewish diarist Victor Klemperer, the novelist Kurt Vonnegut as an American prisoner of war, and Miles Tripp as a British bomb aimer.