Hermeneutics of Violence Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article will focus on the narratives of fear and deprivation and on the functions of autobiographical writing in Victor Klemperer’s Third Reich diaries entitled I Will Bear Witness. His journals provide an immediate insider’s view of National-Socialism within the borders of the German Reich. From the perspective of a victim of anti-Semitic persecution, the author records in detail how structural anomie resulted in cognitive dissonance. In ...