Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer (9 October 188111 February 1960) was a German 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 Fascist Third Reich, and the communist German Democratic Republic.

The three volumes of his diaries have been published in English translations: ''I Shall Bear Witness,'' ''To the Bitter End'', and ''The Lesser Evil''. The first two cover the period of the Third Reich have since become standard sources and have been extensively quoted. His book Lingua Tertii Imperii, published in English as ''The Language of the Third Reich'', studies how Nazi propaganda manipulated and influenced the German language. Provided by Wikipedia