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From Hitler’s arrival in power in 1933 to the German surrender in 1945, Professor Victor Klemperer kept a secret diary in which he recounted the daily life of a German Jew under the Third Reich. The same journal also serves as a notebook for a large study that he dreams of writing if he manages to survive. The subject is the Nazi language, the new language that everyone speaks, Goebbels as the man of the street, the officials of the Gestapo as the Jewish people themselves, who take again without realizing the language of their executioners. Resisting the tyranny of this poisonous language becomes for Klemperer more important than his own survival.
