ISBN: 0826491308 9780826491305

Category: History / Europe / Germany

Page count: 274

<b>Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his university post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan. <b><p>First published in 1957, <i>The Language of the Third Reich</i> 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.'</p><b><p>This brilliant book is by turns entertaining and profound, saddening and horrifying. It is deservedly one of the great twentieth-century studies of language and its engagement with history.</p><b><p>Translated by Dr Martin Brady.</p></b></b></b></b>