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The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959: Lesser Evil, 1945-1959 [Abridged] (Hardcover)

by Victor Klemperer (Author) "During every programme, dozens of times a day, Radio Berlin announces the time, and that is a blessing ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 637 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; abridged edition edition (11 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1842127438
  • ISBN-13: 978-1842127438
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.8 x 5.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars End-of-life diaries in the early GDR, 27 Sep 2009
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This review is from: The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959: Lesser Evil, 1945-1959 (Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-59) (Paperback)
Hard to read this without a deep sense of melancholy. Klemperer remains convinced that his decision to stay in the East was the right one (the lesser evil) because West German had failed to de-Nazify itself - he seems to believe that it was not only run by former Nazis (more or less true) but that anti-semitism was overt and rampant there (probably false). As the end of his approaches he becomes less and less sure that he made the right choice, which is painful to read. At times he tries to be a Marxist, but ends up admitting that he has become an anti-communist (the more so after a visit to China).

He seizes on every incident that justifies this view to himself; but he also notes the many cases of Jew-spotting or Jew-hatred in the East. He participates in the academic and "cultural" life of the GDR, and to some extent the politics, but he clearly hates it. The book is least interesting when he is cataloguing the petty slights the set his career back, but his honesty in the diaries is always rewarding - he writes about the loss of his wife, his very mixed feelings towards the Russians, and similarly about the very limited extent to which he is a Jew.

In the last pages his physical deterioration is very evident, which only compounds the sad feeling of the end - coupled with his self-examination of his life's achievements, it's rather painful.

The book is a long slog (I managed about five pages a night for months) but I am glad I read it.
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