Language Doesn’t Lie

The intimate diary that Victor Klemperer wrote from 1933 to 1945 is one of the most detailed and most impressive pieces of evidence of the fate of German Jews under the Nazi regime. This is the text of a great writer. It is the story of a man from whom everything except his life was stripped away. It is a lesson in resistance. What can a mere university professor, a pariah who has been deprived of all means and all rights, do on his own against barbarism? He can do nothing except continue to think as a free man.