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

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Klemperer, a philologist and historian of French literature, escaped from Dresden during the fire-bombing on February 13, 1945, just in time to avoid being deported to a death camp by the Gestapo. Over the previous twelve years, he had been removed from his professorship, had his home, car, and typewriter and been placed in a Jews' House. Despite his isolation, he continued to write his diary, in which he says, "It's not the big things that are important, but the everyday life of tyranny, which may be forgotten. A thousand mosquito bites are worse than a blow on the head. I observe, I note, the mosquito bites." Having survived the war, Klemperer returned to Dresden, where he was able to resume his professional career. His diaries were deposited in the Dresden state archives upon his death, and forgotten for decades. They were published in Germany in 1995. The author was a Dresden Jew, a veteran of World War I, a man of letters and historian of great sophistication. His diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany .

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