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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960029903321

Autore

Michael Robert <1936->

Titolo

Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German : an English lexicon of the language of the Third Reich / / Robert Michael and Karin Doerr ; forewords by Paul Rose, Leslie Morris, Wolfgang Mieder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2002

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024

ISBN

9798400690334

9786610869268

9781280869266

1280869267

9780313011337

0313011338

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

DoerrKarin <1951->

Disciplina

943.086/03

Soggetti

German language - English

German language - Government jargon

National socialism

Nazis - Language

German language - Political aspects

Propaganda, German

Germany History 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [477]-480) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword - Paul Rose; Foreword - Leslie Morris; Foreword - Wolfgang Mieder; Preface; Acknowledgments; The Tradition of Anti- Jewish Language; Nazi-Deutsch: An Ideological Language of Exclusion, Domination, and Annihilation; LEXICON; APPENDIX; Select Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Created and used as an instrument of coercion and indoctrination, the Nazi language, Nazi-Deutsch, reveals how the Nazis ruled Germany and German-occupied Europe, fought World War II, and committed mass murder and genocide, employing language to encode and euphemize these actions. Written by two scholars specializing in socio-linguistic



and historical issues of the Nazi period, this book provides a unique, extensive, meticulously researched dictionary of the language of the Third Reich. It is an important reference work for English- and German-speaking scholars, students, and teachers of the interwar years, the Nazi era, World War II, and the Holocaust. The first and only comprehensive German-English dictionary of the Third Reich language, the book provides clear, concise, expert definitions with background information. Using up-to-date research, the book provides access, in a single volume, to a specialized, charged vocabulary, including the terminology of Nazi ideology, propaganda slogans, military terms, ranks and offices, abbreviations and acronyms, euphemisms and code names, Germanized words, slang, chauvinistic and anti-Semitic vocabulary, and racist and sexist slurs. The volume is an indispensable tool for research, study, and reading about World War II and the Holocaust.