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From Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to Germany’s capitulation in 1945, Victor Klemperer kept a secret diary in which he recorded the daily life of a German Jewish teacher under the Third Reich. The diary also came in handy as a notebook for a major study he dreamed of writing if he survived. The subject was the Nazi language, that new language that everyone spoke, be it Goebbels or the man in the street, the civil servants of the Gestapo or the Jews themselves, who unconsciously adopted the language of their executioners. Resisting the tyranny of this poisoned dialect became more important for Klemperer than survival itself.

France - 2003 - 1 h 12 mn - Betacam Digital • 16/9 - Colour

Director Stanislav Neumann Writer Stanislav Neumann Camera Ned Burgess Editing Stanislav Neumann, Catherine Adda Narrator Denis Lavant

Production Les Films d'Ici, 62 bd Davout, 75020 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4452 2323 Fax : +33 (0)1 4452 2324 E-mail : courrier@lesfilmsdici.fr Co-Production ARTE France

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