in three volumes: I Will Bear Witness (1933 to 1941), To The Bitter End (1942 to 1945) and The Lesser Evil (1945 to 1959). He also published The Language of the Third Reich, a study on the language of Nazi propaganda. In 1995, Victor Klemperer was posthumously awarded the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for his work, Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten. Tagebücher 1933–1945. Documentary In 2000, Herbert Gantschacher wrote, together with Katharina and Jürgen Rostock, the documentary play Chronicle 1933–1945 using original documents from the biographies of Robert Ley and Victor Klemperer. The first performance took place in 2000 in the documentation centre at the planned "Strength Through Joy" beach resort Prora on the island of Rügen in Germany. In 2003, Stan Neumann directed a documentary based on Klemperer's diaries, La langue ne ment pas (Language does not lie), which considers the importance of Klemperer's observations and the role of the witness in extreme situations. See also List of Holocaust diarists List of diarists Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime References Notes Bibliography Bartov, Omer, "The Last German", in The New Republic, 1998-12-28, pp. 34+ scholarly overview of Klemperer's diaries by a professor at Brown University Klemperer, Victor, I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1933–41, translated by Martin Chalmers, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998 Klemperer, Victor, To the Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1942–1945, translated by Martin Chalmers, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999 Klemperer, Victor, The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945–1959, translated by Martin Chalmers, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 "Victor Klemperer, Early life" at the Aufbau-Verlag website "Victor Klemperer Kolleg, Berlin" External links Spiegel International: Victor Klemperer Spiegel International: The Dresden diaries Excerpts from Klemperer's diaries Ms Susie Ehrmann. The Diaries of Victor Klemperer The everyday life of tyranny 1881 births 1960 deaths People from Gorzów Wielkopolski People from the Province of Brandenburg 19th-century German Jews Jewish philosophers German Protestants Converts to Protestantism from Judaism Communist Party of Germany politicians Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians Members of the 1st Volkskammer Members of the 2nd Volkskammer Cultural Association of the GDR members Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime members German diarists German philologists German literary theorists Propaganda theorists German male non-fiction writers Französisches Gymnasium Berlin alumni Academic staff of the University of Greifswald Academic staff of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin