The best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich
NEW YORK TIMES
It is a fascinating record which deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil regime
EVENING STANDARD
Few English readers will fail to be moved as I was - ultimately to the point of tears
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Klemperer was a shrewd judge of human nature and unsparing of his own. As a diarist he is in the Pepys class ... He is, quite simply, the German of record
SPECTATOR
These are the day-to-day records ... of an unheroic man who showed, in keeping them, inconceivable courage
- Penelope Fitzgerald, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
These diaries constitute one of the most vital historical and human documents of their age. Packed with vivid observation, profound reflection ... they find hope, dignity and even tart humour in the jaws of hell
INDEPENDENT
Of all the books I have read on the subject, I find it hard to think of one which has taught me more
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
A heroic diarist who has left an invaluable record of the Third Reich
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
This is a truly monumental work, destined to become a source book for anyone studying the Third Reich
- Eva Figes, HAMPSTEAD AND HIGHGATE EXPRESS
The diary's value, apart from the quality of its writing ... lies in its detailed narrative of the humiliations suffered by Jews ... That is the guiding spirit of this remarkable book
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
He has left an extraordinary historical document which in its own way is an invaluable contribution to an understanding not just of Jewish life under the Nazi regime, but of the whole German wartime experience
SUNDAY TRIBUNE