ISBN:
9780521888660
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 304 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
Year of publication:
2009
DDC:
073/.08992404309043
Keywords:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1928-1948
;
Geschichte 1933-1945
;
Deutsch
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Juden
;
Massenmedien
;
Antisemitism in the press History 20th century
;
Antisemitism in language History 20th century
;
Jews Press coverage 20th century
;
History
;
German language Social aspects
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Press and politics History 20th century
;
Government and the press History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Causes
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Presse
;
Zeitung
;
Judenbild
;
Drittes Reich
;
Politische Sprache
;
Feindbild
;
Propaganda
;
Antisemitismus
;
Manipulation
;
Deutschland
;
Germany Ethnic relations
;
Deutschland
;
Deutschland
;
Zeitung
;
Judenbild
;
Geschichte 1928-1948
;
Deutschland
;
Zeitung
;
Politische Sprache
;
Manipulation
;
Antisemitismus
;
Geschichte 1933-1945
;
Drittes Reich
;
Zeitung
;
Politische Sprache
;
Manipulation
;
Antisemitismus
;
Deutschland
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Antisemitismus
;
Propaganda
;
Geschichte 1928-1948
;
Deutschland
;
Presse
;
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
;
Judenbild
;
Feindbild
;
Politische Sprache
;
Geschichte 1928-1948
Abstract:
In the Nazi genocide of European Jews, words preceded, accompanied, and made mass murder possible. Using a multilayered approach to connect official language to everyday life, historian Thomas Pegelow Kaplan analyzes the role of language in genocide. This study seeks to comprehend how the perpetrators constructed difference, race, and their perceived enemies; how Nazi agencies communicated to the public through the nation's press; and how Germans of Jewish ancestry received, contested, and struggled for survival and self against remarkable odds. The Language of Nazi Genocide covers the historical periods of the late Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and early postwar Germany. However, by addressing the architecture of conceptual separation between groups and the means by which social aggression is disseminated, this study offers a model for comparative studies of linguistic violence, hate speech, and genocide in the modern world.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26328
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