Language of the Third Reich

A labourer journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history – from the German Empire through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic – Victor Klemperer is regarded as one of the most vivid witnesses to a tumultuous century of European history. . First published in 1957 The Language of the Third Reich 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.'