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When a neighbor remarks that, in his isolation, klemperer will not be able to cover the main events of the war, he writes. Victor klemperer has become something of a national hero in germany since these volumes first published in the mid90s. Victor klemperer has 37 books on goodreads with 20711 ratings. To me the zionists, who want to go back to the jewish state of a.
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