Reviews
"For the next generation of historians, Klemperer's diaries will be required reading." -Gordon Craig,The New York Review of Books "To read his almost day-by-day account is a hypnotic experience; the whole, hard to put down, is a true murder mystery-from the perspective of the victim." -Peter Gay,The New York Times Book Review "One of the great testimonies of our century. . . . Klemperer's ability to grasp moods and attitudes has a truly Dickensian quality." -Los Angeles Times "What has been called one of the most remarkable documents to come out of the Second World War turns out to be one of the most compulsively readable books of the year." -The San Diego Union-Tribune "Were ordinary Germans, as the historian Daniel Goldhagen recently argued, imbued with an 'eliminationist anti-Semitism' long before 1933? Were they-to use his other catchphrase-'Hitler's willing executioners' of the Jews of Europe? Or was the Holocaust the terrible work of a deviant minority within German society? Did ordinary Germans even know what was going on in the concentration camps? Or did propaganda work so effectively that they came to condone mass murder perpetrated in their name? Anyone who wishes to venture an answer to these questions-in my view, the most important of modern history-simply must read Klemperer." -Niall Ferguson,London Sunday Telegraph
