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By HEATHER MALLICK -- Toronto Sun I WILL BEAR WITNESS: A DIARY OF THE NAZI YEARS Victor Klemperer (Random House) These are the diaries of a Polish-born Jew who lived in Germany from the age of 9 until his death in 1960 at the age of 78. You will immediately grasp the significance of this: Victor Klemperer, a Jew, spent the Third Reich among the Nazis and lived to tell the tale. Klemperer was one of 198 Jews left in Dresden, all of them married to non-Jews. On Feb. 13, 1945, he received his deportation sentence (meaning death) and that night the Allies made their famous bombing raid. The firestorm made it possible for him to tear the yellow star off his coat and flee. Klemperer had chosen not to leave in the 1930s despite warnings, because he was a German. He had fought for Germany in World War I. Why should a German not stay in Germany with his German wife?
Approximate Word count = 648
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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