Victor Klemperer Quotes

Victor Klemperer was a German Romance languages 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. October 1881 – 11. February 1960
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“Very quiet and yet quieter living-for-ourselves.”

I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years

Victor Klemperer Quotes

“Anyone who took their Catholic faith seriously stood alongside the Jews in mutual, mortal conflict with Hitler.”

Source: LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii (The Language of the Third Reich) (1947), p. 282

“But there is no vox populi, only voci populi.”

Source: LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii (The Language of the Third Reich) (1947), p. 207.

“Never - never in my whole life - has my head spun as much from a book as it did with Rosenberg’s Myth.”

Not because his writings were exceptionally profound, difficult to comprehend or emotionally overwhelming, but because Clemens hammered on my head with the book for minutes on end. (Clemens and Weser were the principal torturers of the Jews in Dresden, and they were generally differentiated as the Hitter and the Spitter.) ‘How dare a Jewish pig like you presume to read a book of this kind?’ Clemens yelled. To him it seemed like the desecration of a consecrated wafer. ‘How dare you have a book here from the lending library?’ Only the fact that the volume had demonstrably been borrowed in the name of my Aryan wife, and, moreover, that the sheet of notes which accompanied it was torn up without being deciphered, saved me at the time from the concentration camp.
Source: LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii (The Language of the Third Reich) (1947), p. 12.

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