The internationally acclaimed bestseller of a German Jew in Nazi Germany. 'Deserves to stand alongside Anne Frank's diary as a day-to-day description of the trials of the victims of Hitler's evil regime' - EVENING STANDARD. 'Few Anglo-Saxon readers will not be moved as I was - ultimately to the point of tears' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. 'Full of vivid observations, deep thought… they find hope, dignity, and even bitter humor in the jaws of hell' - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY. A sensation when published, this is one of the most remarkable documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was a language professor in Dresden in 1933. Over the next decade, he lost his job, his home, and many friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to have pets. Saved for much of the war from the Holocaust due to his marriage to an Aryan, he then managed to escape from the bombings of Dresden and survived the remaining months of the war in hiding. Throughout, Klemperer kept a diary, a bold act in itself for a Jew in Nazi Germany. This edition covers the period from the early Holocaust to the end of the war, narrating the story of Klemperer's increasing isolation, his near-miraculous survival, his realization of the development of the ever-growing Holocaust as friends and associates disappeared, and his narrow escapes from deportation and the bombings of Dresden in 1945. Shocking and moving at intervals, it is a remarkable and important document, as powerful and astonishing in its own way as Anne Frank's classic.