Talk:Victor Klemperer

message: Thanks for the clean-ups and revisions to this article. I have been following this topic for a few months now, and it is steadily improving.Jeffpw 09:23, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I read one of his books, and was profoundly unimpressed by how he could observe these things happening to his friends and family, and essentially do nothing about any of it. Every few weeks he repeats, "Well, it can't get any worse". Surely there are published, reliable critical sources pointing out his role is more of a cowed, ineffectual observer than a folk hero. 76.126.217.129 (talk) 20:22, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You think you would have done better? You're expressing a very cynical view and then saying that "surely" there are reliable sources that share it--that's not how Wikipedia or talk pages work. If you have found such reliable sources then you can modify the article to include them, but this fishing for criticism stinks. 2600:8802:5913:1700:75BB:92D8:8263:576F (talk) 18:50, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

text: You think you would have done better? You're expressing a very cynical view and then saying that "surely" there are reliable sources that share it--that's not how Wikipedia or talk pages work. If you have found such reliable sources then you can modify the article to include them, but this fishing for criticism stinks. 2600:8802:5913:1700:75BB:92D8:8263:576F (talk) 18:51, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Negative critical review needed

message: In what sense was he a "businessman", as stated in the first line?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.145.107.178 (talk) 18:14, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: He in fact worked "as a commercial apprentice in a fancy goods company".  I will change the first line.--Joel Mc (talk) 20:27, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Businessman

message: The title appears to be "I Will ...".
https://archive.org/details/KlempererVictorIWillBearWitness19421945ADiaryOfTheNaziYears 
 -- Steve --  (talk) 03:57, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Diary of the Nazi Years 

message: Inadvertently, it seems, previous contributors have made a distinction between Jews and "Germans". In actuality, Klemperer was a native-born German of German (Jewish) parentage. The distinction is between Jewish Germans and other Germans. The racial laws of that time were immediately invalidated in 1945 and such distinctions are prohibited by the German constitution today. If Klemperer were alive today he would be a German citizen based on "jus soli", no different than any non-Jewish native-born German. I suggest these references should all be changed to "Aryan". 86.42.41.84 (talk) 06:10, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entry contains numerous instances of improper distinction between Jewish and "German"  

message: This article says that Victor Klemperer and his wife were compelled by financial need to take "cleaning jobs".  I just finished reading the diary in question.  His wife Eva was a semi-invalid and did not have any outside employment for wages in that period.  Victor was drafted for labor details, but the closest he had to a cleaning job was shoveling snow.  Most of his labor was in light industry. Bruce in MN (talk) 17:54, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cleaning jobs" 

message: Is there any reason for the inclusion of scare quotes around 'extermination' in the phrase 'Jews became aware only gradually of the nature of atrocities and scale of "extermination" at camps such as Theresienstadt and Auschwitz', which seem to imply that the term is suspect in some way? If not, it would read rather better to remove them. 2A02:C7C:CB3F:4000:60E9:3DBC:6812:BEFD (talk) 21:55, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate 'Scare Quotes'