{"id":"https://openalex.org/W592600438","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1177","title":"The lesser evil: the diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945-1959","display_name":"The lesser evil: the diaries of Victor Klemperer, 1945-1959","publication_year":2004,"publication_date":"2004-10-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W592600438","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1177","mag":"592600438"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.5860/choice.42-1177","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1177","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1177","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764375719","display_name":"Choice Reviews Online","issn_l":"0009-4978","issn":["0009-4978","1523-8253","1943-5975"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316146","host_organization_name":"Association of College and Research Libraries","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316146","https://openalex.org/P4310315903"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Association of College and Research Libraries","American Library Association"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Choice Reviews Online","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"book-review","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":null,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":22,"citation_normalized_percentile":null,"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"42","issue":"02","first_page":"42","last_page":"1177"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13484","display_name":"German History and Society","score":0.9843999743461609,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13484","display_name":"German History and Society","score":0.9843999743461609,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12645","display_name":"European history and politics","score":0.00930000003427267,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3320","display_name":"Political Science and International Relations"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13474","display_name":"Autobiographical and Biographical Writing","score":0.0027000000700354576,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1208","display_name":"Literature and Literary Theory"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/victor-klemperer","display_name":"Victor Klemperer","score":0.9869999885559082},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/east-german-communist-party","display_name":"East German Communist Party","score":0.6700000166893005},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/german-democratic-republic","display_name":"East Germany","score":0.6769999861717224},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/postwar-germany","display_name":"postwar Germany","score":0.6740000247955322},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/everyday-life","display_name":"everyday life","score":0.5860000252723694},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/academic-life","display_name":"academic life","score":0.382999986410141},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/personal-diary","display_name":"personal diary","score":0.4259999990463257}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.44681528210639954},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.38376399874687195},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95124753","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q875686","display_name":"Environmental ethics","level":1,"score":0.37410181760787964},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.363962322473526}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.5860/choice.42-1177","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1177","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1177","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764375719","display_name":"Choice Reviews Online","issn_l":"0009-4978","issn":["0009-4978","1523-8253","1943-5975"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316146","host_organization_name":"Association of College and Research Libraries","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316146","https://openalex.org/P4310315903"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Association of College and Research Libraries","American Library Association"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Choice Reviews Online","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16","score":0.46149998903274536,"display_name":"Peace, justice, and strong institutions"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W7064518665","https://openalex.org/W2037802866","https://openalex.org/W4239431679","https://openalex.org/W577931804","https://openalex.org/W4281567748","https://openalex.org/W6949267637","https://openalex.org/W4233369039","https://openalex.org/W7120536748","https://openalex.org/W3106954606","https://openalex.org/W3110139724"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"volume":[1],"opens":[2],"in":[3,73,76,84,108],"June":[4],"1945.":[5],"The":[6],"immediate":[7],"postwar":[8],"period":[9],"produces":[10],"many":[11,47],"shocks":[12],"and":[13,44,51,78,113,127,130],"revelations":[14],"-":[15],"some":[16],"people":[17],"have":[18],"behaved":[19],"better":[20],"than":[21],"Klemperer":[22],"had":[23],"believed,":[24],"others":[25],"much":[26],"worse.":[27],"His":[28,80],"sharp":[29],"observations":[30],"are":[31],"now":[32],"turned":[33],"on":[34],"the":[35,62,65,91,109,122,128],"East":[36,115],"German":[37,116],"Communist":[38,52],"Party,":[39],"which":[40],"he":[41,45,55,95],"himself":[42],"joins,":[43],"notes":[46],"similarities":[48],"between":[49],"Nazi":[50],"behaviour.":[53],"Politics,":[54],"comes":[56],"to":[57],"believe,":[58],"is":[59,69,121],"above":[60],"all":[61],"choice":[63],"of":[64,93,98,124],"lesser":[66],"evil.":[67],"He":[68,106],"made":[70],"a":[71,88],"professor":[72],"Greifswald,":[74],"then":[75],"Berlin":[77],"Halle.":[79],"wife":[81],"Eva":[82],"dies":[83],"1951":[85],"but":[86,103],"within":[87],"year":[89],"at":[90],"age":[92],"70":[94],"marries":[96],"one":[97],"his":[99],"students,":[100],"an":[101],"unlikely":[102],"successful":[104],"love-match.":[105],"serves":[107],"GDR's":[110],"People's":[111],"Chamber":[112],"represents":[114],"scholarship":[117],"abroad.":[118],"But":[119],"it":[120],"details":[123],"everyday":[125],"life,":[126],"honesty":[129],"directness,":[131],"that":[132],"make":[133],"these":[134],"diaries":[135],"so":[136],"fascinating.":[137]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":2}],"updated_date":"2026-07-14T23:27:15.235271","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}