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The Lesser Evil

The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

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The Lesser Evil

By: Victor Klemperer
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The superb, best-selling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.

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 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 best-selling diaries so fascinating.

©2022 Victor Klemperer (P)2022 Orion Publishing Group
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"Compulsive reading." (Literary Review)

"Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank." (Sunday Times)

"A vivid and powerful account of a remarkable life." (Scotland on Sunday)

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