Victor Klemperer was a German philologist and diarist who chronicled life in the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, under Nazi Germany, and in East Germany. His detailed observations are among the most important firsthand accounts of everyday life under Nazism.
- Occupation
- Romanist, scholar of French literature, university teacher, politician
- Position held
- member of the Volkskammer
- Citizenship
- Germany, East Germany, Poland
- Born
- October 9, 1881
- Died
- February 11, 1960