Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer was a German scholar, philologist, and diarist best known for his detailed and poignant diaries chronicling life under Nazi rule. His work 'The Language of the Third Reich' (LTI) analyzes how Nazi ideology corrupted language. He survived the Holocaust due to his Jewish-Christian mixed marriage and later lived in East Germany.

Landsberg, Prussia (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland) Oct 9, 1881 Wikipedia
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