<p>The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.<br><br><b>''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</b><br><br><b>''Few English readers will fail to be moved as I was - ultimately to the point of tears'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH</b><br><br><b>''Packed with vivid observation, profound reflection ... they find hope, dignity and even tart humour in the jaws of hell'' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY</b><br><br>A sensation when first published, this is one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages in Dresden. Over the next decade he lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets. Saved for much of the war from the Holocaust by his marriage to a gentile, he was able to escape in the aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden and survived the