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Under the Third Reich, the official language of Nazism came to be used as a political tool. The existing social culture was manipulated and subverted as the German people had their ethical values and their thoughts about politics, history and daily life recast in a new language. This Notebook, originally called LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii)-the abbreviation itself a parody of Nazified language-was written out of 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, entertaining, profound, and ultimately saddening and horrifying book is one of the great twentieth-century studies of language and of its engagement with history.
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The language of the Third Reich, Victor Klemperer
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- Released
- 2006
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Victor Klemperer
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 274
- ISBN10
- 0826491308
- ISBN13
- 9780826491305
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Political Science & Politics, Philosophical Topics, Philosophy, Politics, Military History, Germany, Languages, World War II, Gifts for grandpa, Society, Linguistics, Jews, Culture, Nazism, Diaries, Propaganda, Third Reich (Nazi Germany), 1933-1945, Nazis, Philology, Semantics, Sociolinguistics
- First published
- 1947
- Original title
- LTI, Notizbuch eines Philologen
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- Under the Third Reich, the official language of Nazism came to be used as a political tool. The existing social culture was manipulated and subverted as the German people had their ethical values and their thoughts about politics, history and daily life recast in a new language. This Notebook, originally called LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii)-the abbreviation itself a parody of Nazified language-was written out of 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, entertaining, profound, and ultimately saddening and horrifying book is one of the great twentieth-century studies of language and of its engagement with history.