Victor Klemperer
1881
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1960
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country of citizenship: Germany, German Democratic Republic
languages spoken, written or signed: German
educated at: Französisches Gymnasium Berlin
occupation: romanist, scholar of French literature, university teacher, politician, writer, autobiographer, diarist, journalist
award received: Geschwister-Scholl-Preis, National Prize of East Germany, Patriotic Order of Merit in silver, F.-C.-Weiskopf-Preis, Honorary doctor of the Dresden University of Technology
position held: member of the Volkskammer
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic. Those covering the period of the Third Reich have since become standard sources and have been extensively quoted by Saul Friedländer, Michael Burleigh, Richard J. Evans, and Max Hastings. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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