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- 9 October 1881
- Died
- 11 February 1960
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- 61
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Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German philologist and diarist who chronicled life in the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, under Nazi Germany, and in East Germany. His detailed observations are among the most important firsthand accounts of everyday life under Nazism.
Dismissed from his university post as part of the racial policy of Nazi Germany, he survived persecution in Dresden, where he continued his diaries in secret. After 1945, he joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and later served as a cultural figure.
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1881 births1960 deaths19th-century German Jews19th-century people from the Kingdom of Prussia20th-century German diarists20th-century German Jews20th-century German journalists20th-century German male journalists20th-century German male writers20th-century German philologistsAcademic staff of the Humboldt University of BerlinAcademic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg