Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii
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Author(s)Victor Klemperer
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
ISBN / ASIN0826491308
ISBN-139780826491305
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Sales Rank339,822
CategoryHistory
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his university post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan.
First published in 1957, The Language of the Third Reich arose from Klemperer's conviction that the language of the Third Reich helped to create its culture. As Klemperer writes: 'It isn't only Nazi actions that have to vanish, but also the Nazi cast of mind, the typical Nazi way of thinking, and its breeding ground: the language of Nazism.'
This brilliant book is by turns entertaining and profound, saddening and horrifying. It is deservedly one of the great twentieth-century studies of language and its engagement with history.
Translated by Dr Martin Brady.
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