The Language of the Third Reich
"LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii)" - A Philologist's Notebook
Published on 1. February 2000
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-485-11526-0 (ISBN)
Description
A Jewish professor of Roman studies, Victor Klemperer lived throughout the Nazi period in conditions of great deprivation and, intermittently, of deadly peril. This text is a linguistic diary kept secretly by Klemperer from 1933-45 in which he recorded the characteristic literary forms and usages of the Nazi regime and analysed the impact of Nazism of German language, life and culture.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-485-11526-0 (9780485115260)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Heorism (instead of an introduction); LTI; prelude; distinguishing feature - poverty; Partenau; from the diary of the first year; the first three words of the Nazi language; Aufzieben; ten years of Fascism; fanatical; autocthonous writing; blurring boundaries; punctuation; names; Konlenklau; Knif; on a single working day; system and organization; I believe in him; personal announcements as an LTI revision book; what remains?; German roost; a sunny Weltanschuung (chance discoveries whilst reading); if two people do the same thing ...; Cafe Europe; the star; the Jewish war; the Jewish spectacles; the language of the victor; Zion; the curse of the superlative; from the great movement forward ... ; boxing; Gefolgschaft; the one syllable; running hot and cold; putting the theory to the test; "cos of expressions" (an afterword).