“In my own mind these reports of Hitler and Goebbels are supplemented by a professional distinction drawn by a friend of ours who at the time was a houseman in the hospital of a small industrial town in Saxony. ‘In… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
“Pity is such a shabby thing. I can torment myself with wanting to feel pity, and yet I don't succeed.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“The dominant feeling is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“Socialism has now become completely or almost completely identical with Bolshevism; that” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“March 18...[1945] Brief morning reflection arisen from great love. In fact, the main point after all is that for forty years we have so… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus) are just as… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“The banal perception - all the most profound perceptions are banal, at most one man finds a somewhat more original expression for it than… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“We had a friendly conversation, the man shook my hand, told me to keep my spirits up… The next day…He stared ahead as he… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“That the door fell shut, that the latch fell into place, did I know it with a nameless fear. At that second the eight… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“We are completely isolated. We have heard nothing from Annemarie Kohler, nothing from Johannes Kohler for weeks…A frightening silence.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“I believe the pogroms of November '38 made less impression on the nation than cutting the bar of chocolate for Christmas.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“Curious: At the very moment modern technology annuls all frontiers and distances (flying, wireless, television, economic interdependance), the most extreme nationalism is raging.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“I must make notes even now, I must, no matter how dangerous it is. That is my professional courage.” — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
“Ich war noch nicht ein bißchen abgestumpft, ich war noch so ganz gewohnt, in einem Rechtsstaat zu leben, daß ich damals vieles für die… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share
