Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii (Bloomsbury Revelations) - Softcover

Klemperer, Victor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472507215 ISBN 13: 9781472507211

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Synopsis

A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history – from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic – Victor Klemperer is regarded as one of the most vivid witnesses to a tumultuous century of European history.

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.'

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About the Author

Victor Klemperer, a front-line veteran of the First World War, became Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. He was taken from his university in 1935 because he was Jewish, and only survived because of his marriage to an Aryan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472507215
• ISBN 13: 9781472507211
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320