Diarist and Everyday Life History. Victor Klemperer’s Diaries 1933-1945 as a Peripheral Historiography of National Socialism
Abstract
The diary genre has specific possibilities in order to direct the attention on everyday life. Victor Klemperer’s diaries from the period of the Third Reich, I will bear witness (1995) - show convincingly, from the personal perspective of A German Jew who has escaped the Holocaust, that Nazi society did not allow any separation of politics from everyday life. Fascism made it to its aim to create an organic society, in which every aspect of life should be penetrated by the Nazi ideology. Klemperer. To this kind of totalitarian penetration Klemperer bears witness in an impressive way. Concerning the focus on daily life inherent in the diary, my article shall present that the basis to Victor Klemperer’s repertoire writing style is will to create diaphaneity and to explain what happens during the twelve years of Nazi terror. On the other hand, all this would have remained indescribable, had he not written it down meticulously in his diaries.
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