This volume opens in June 1945. The immediate postwar period produces many shocks and revelations - some people have behaved better than Klemperer had believed, others much worse. His sharp observations are now turned on the East German Communist Party, which he himself joins, and he notes many similarities between Nazi and Communist behaviour. Politics, he comes to believe, is above all the choice of the lesser evil . He is made a professor in Greifswald, then in Berlin and Halle. His wife Eva dies in 1951 but within a year at the age of 70 he marries one of his students, an unlikely but successful love-match. He serves in the GDR's People's Chamber and represents East German scholarship abroad. But it is the details of everyday life, and the honesty and directness, that make these diaries so fascinating.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
ISBN-13
9780753817940
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95250019
Product Key Features
Author
Victor Klemperer
Publication Name
The Lesser Evil: the Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
151mm
Item Weight
792g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Victor Klemperer
Topic
Books
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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