The language of Nazi genocide : linguistic violence and the struggle of Germans of Jewish ancestry / Thomas Pegelow Kaplan.

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 perpetrato...

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Autores principales:Pegelow, Thomas
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado:Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009.
Edición:1. publ
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Acceso en línea:http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=018676058&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Includes bibliographical references and index
Descripción Física:XV, 304 S. : Ill
ISBN:9780521888660