The Language of the Third Reich
Lti: Lingua Tertii Imperii
Published on 1. February 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-8264-5777-6 (ISBN)
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".
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
389 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5777-6 (9780826457776)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Heroism (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; Aufziehen; ten years of Fascism; fanatical; autochthonous writing; blurring boundaries; punctuation; names; Kohlenklau; Knif; on a single working day; "system" and "organisation"; I believe in him; personal announcements as an LTI revision book; what remains?; German roots; a sunny Weltanschauung (chance discoveries whilst reading); if two people do the same thing...; Cafe Europa; 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 certain expressions (an afterword).