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Title: Long but interesting...
Review: I was on a flight over the U.S. a few weeks ago and the man sitting next to me looked at the book I was reading (this one) and spitted out to me, "I have to tell you, that book is a fraud." He then went on to say that "they" (whomever "they" are I have yet to find out...) uncovered that Victor Klemperer is actually a Swedish Catholic... I would love to know if anyone else has heard about this book being a "fraud"?Regardless, the 560+ page book is a long, and at times, a somewhat laborious read. I kept reading because he had SO much to say. The difficulty in reading this huge diary is his way of writing: He isn't a fluid diarist and it is all a bit choppy; however, I just couldn't put the ... thing down! He gives a good account of what the Gestapo did to the Jewish residents of Dresden, and if you want a historical look at this part of Europe during WWII, this diary has it all!
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