The Language of Nazi Genocide: Linguistic Violence and the Struggle of Germans of Jewish Ancestry

ISBN-13: 9781107650572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 322 str.

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Opis

In the Nazi genocide of European Jews, words made mass murder possible. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan analyzes the role of language.

Recenzje

'In a multi-layered analysis, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan attempts to comprehend how the Nazis categorized their racial enemies in the press and how Germans of Jewish ancestry contested and struggled for survival in the midst of this propaganda onslaught … [he] deserves credit for explaining how hatred of the Jews became part of the everyday language of stories and editorial comment in the press.' European History Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. 'We are all Germans; why then ask for religion …': cultural identity, language, and Weimar pluralism, 1928–32; 2. Towards the 'racial and social boundaries between Germans and Jews are to be strictly drawn …': dictatorship building and the process of Nazifying language, 1933; 3. Towards the eradication of the 'impossible, untenable category of 'German Jews'': enforcing and contesting racial difference, 1935–8; 4. 'The Jewess' attempted to 'state a case on her decent': linguistic violence as part of genocide, 1941–5; 5. 'We are not bad Jews, because we believe we are good and true Germans …': another beginning and persisting difference, 1945–8; Conclusion; Appendix.