![]() ![]() If Klemperer lived in an ultimate Nazi society Sebastian survived in a world of opportunistic fascism. ![]() ![]() Like Sebastian, Klemperer registered the systematic shrinking of the physical and intellectual space around him. Like Sebastian, Klemperer was in a brutal and merciless way rejected by this society only because he was Jewish. Perhaps the closest example of a similar diary is Victor Klemperer 's I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941. ![]() Of course Sebastian's diary was not the first literary description of the nazification of a European society seen through the eyes of a Jewish intellectual. Sebastian's diary covers the not-so-glorious period of three anti-Semitic dictatorships in the Romanian national history: the dictatorship of Carol II (1938-40), which followed the short-lived, rabidly anti-Semitic government of Goga-Cuza (December 1937-February 1938) the dictatorship of Ion Antonescu in alliance with the Iron Guard (September 1940-January 1941) and the dictatorship of Antonescu without the Iron Guard (1941-44). ![]()
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