TY - JOUR
T1 - Comrade Klemperer
T2 - Communism, liberalism and jewishness in the DDR. the later diaries 1945-59
AU - Aschheim, Steven E.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - This article seeks to analyse the 'later' Victor Klemperer through his newly published diaries for the period, 1945-59. It attempts to unravel the complex reasons for his turn to communism - after many years of vehement opposition to that movement - and his life and fate as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic. It also maps Klemperer's fraught and changing attitudes towards that regime. At the same time, the article traces the tensions between Klemperer's newly-formed political loyalties and his ongoing liberalism as well as his continuing problematic relations with his own Jewishness and the issue of Zionism. copyright
AB - This article seeks to analyse the 'later' Victor Klemperer through his newly published diaries for the period, 1945-59. It attempts to unravel the complex reasons for his turn to communism - after many years of vehement opposition to that movement - and his life and fate as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic. It also maps Klemperer's fraught and changing attitudes towards that regime. At the same time, the article traces the tensions between Klemperer's newly-formed political loyalties and his ongoing liberalism as well as his continuing problematic relations with his own Jewishness and the issue of Zionism. copyright
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U2 - 10.1177/002200940103600206
DO - 10.1177/002200940103600206
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AN - SCOPUS:67650889093
SN - 0022-0094
VL - 36
SP - 325-343+396
JO - Journal of Contemporary History
JF - Journal of Contemporary History
IS - 2
ER -