I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2 A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945

Destined to take its place alongsideThe Diary of Anne Frankand Elie Wiesel'sNightas one of the great classics of the Holocaust,I Will Bear Witnessis a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from Hitler's Germany. Volume Two begins in 1942, the year the Final Solution was formally proposed, and carries us through to the Allied bombing of Dresden and Germany's defeat.

A professor of Romance languages in Dresden, <b>Victor Klemperer</b> wrote several major works on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature before he was expelled from his post in 1935. He lived through the war in Dresden with his wife, Eva. Klemperer's secret diaries were thought for many years to have been lost or suppressed by the Communist authorities of East Germany, where Klemperer lived after the war. He wife deposited them after his death in 1960 in the Dresden Landesarchiv, where they remained until they were uncovered by Victor Nowojski, a former pupil, who edited and transcribed them for publication in Germany. Their reception there was a national event. The diaries have been translated into twelve languages.<br><br><b>About the Translator</b><br><br><b>Martin Chalmers</b> ha