Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
An important and unique addition to the literature of Nazi Germany, this lexicon serves as a dictionary of the terminology and specialized vocabulary of Nazi ideology...This compilation will be a strong research tool for academic, public, and high-school libraries, especially those with students or scholars studying Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, or World War II.Booklist/RBB
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...surely destined to become a standard volume in all Holocaust libraries.The Bulletin of the Center of Holocaust Studies Fall 2002
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Michael and Doerr deserve enormous credit for their exhaustive and meticulous compendium of Nazi vocabulary, including abbreviations and acronyms, military terms and ranks, government and military offices, and--critically important--euphemisms and code names....Any student of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, or WW II should know this book. Essential for all academic libraries.Choice
Synopsis
A unique, extensive, meticulously researched dictionary of the Nazi language, this volume is an indispensable tool for research, study, and reading about World War II and the Holocaust.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
ROBERT MICHAEL is Professor of European History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, where he has taught the Holocaust for 25 years. He has published over 50 articles on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and several books, including The Holocaust Chronicle (1999) and The Holocaust: A Chronology and Documentary (1998). He is a recipient of the American Historical Association's James Harvey Robinson Prize for the "most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history in any field" (1997).KARIN DOERR teaches German at Concordia University in Montreal, is a research associate at the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies, and a teacher at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute for Women's Studies. Her latest research involves Holocaust survivors and their recollections of the German language from the Hitler period.
Table of Contents
Forewords by Wolfgang Mieder, Paul Rose, and Leslie Morris
Preface
The Tradition of Anti-Jewish Language by Robert Michael
Nazi-Deutsch: An Ideological Language of Exclusion, Domination, and Annihilation by Karin Doerr
Lexicon
Appendix
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