Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi German

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.