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Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi German An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich
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Robert Michael, Karin Doerr
Forewords by Paul Rose, Leslie Morris and Wolfgang Mieder
Book Code: GR2106
ISBN: 0-313-32106-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32106-1
504 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 1/30/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • 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     December 2002
  • Karin Doerr and Robert Michael have created a fine book....[T]he lexicon is extensive and will undoubtedly assist students of the Third Reich, World War II, and the Holocaust in their research. College students enrolled in courses on these topics and other nonspecialists stand to benefit the most. This volume gives them the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the terminology of the Third Reich. Attaining knowledge of the Nazis' linguistic code will in turn enable them to make sense of the documentary evidence....[M]ichael's and Doerr's thought-provoking essays raise the issue of continuity and are thus of particular interest to historians.
    —German Studies Review     2003
  • ...surely destined to become a standard volume in all Holocaust libraries.
    —The Bulletin of the Center of Holocaust Studies Fall 2002     August 2002
  • 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
Description: 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.
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
  • Related Readings
LC Card Number: 2001042328
LCC Class: PF2680
Dewey Class: 943
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