The diaries overshadow everything that has ever been written about the Nazi era. This worldwide bestseller, whose significance can only be compared to Anne Frank's diary, is being released 70 years after the end of World War II in a new, bibliophile edition and in a revised text form. Victor Klemperer's records from the time of Nazi terror have proven to be indispensable and unparalleled historical documents. "Observe, note, study" - this constant demand he placed on himself was fulfilled through his meticulous notes on the daily life of Jewish persecution. He saw himself as a cultural historian of the catastrophe and additionally became a chronicler of fates and family tragedies that would otherwise have been forgotten. He wrote daily, despite constant danger of death, forced labor, and a degrading existence in the Jewish house.