Comrade Klemperer: Communism, liberalism and jewishness in the DDR. the later diaries 1945-59

Steven E. Aschheim

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Abstract

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

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)325-343+396
JournalJournal of Contemporary History
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001

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