Victor Klemperer was a Professor of Romance Languages at the Technical 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 insight 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.