The Hive Library – The Jewish Experience in Nazi Germany – HMD 2025

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: The Hive Library

Website: https://e-services.worcestershire.gov.uk/LibraryEvents/EventDetails.aspx?id=7246

Address:
The Hive Library, Sawmill Walk
The Butts
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 3PD
United Kingdom

Victor Klemperer was a Professor of Romance Languages at the Techinical University of Dresden. Born to a Jewish family, he converted to Protestantism and married Eva Schlemmer, an 'Aryan'. Klemperer kept a secret diary between 1933 and 1945 recording the progressive persecution of the German Jewish population. This lecture will explore how Klemperer's observations offer insights into the response of 'ordinary Germans' to the radicalization of Nazi Jewish policy up to and including the Holocaust.
Dr Paddy McNally is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Worcester.

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University of Worcester