It is this emotionality that completely flooded the German listeners’ critical defenses and appealed directly to their whole soul and being-a mood of ecstatic joy reinforced by the sense of excitement and dynamism that was conjured up by the host of new modern jargon words that Nazi-Deutsch invented. The problem is that these harmless English words do not convey the powerful emotional resonance-almost religious in its intensity-that the original terms carry in German culture. When a non-German-speaking audience sees Leni Riefenstahl’s notorious 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally film Triumph of the Will, the English subtitles of Hitler’s speeches generally leaves them quite mystified as to why the original German audiences should have found the rhetoric so overwhelming much of what Hitler says is almost unexceptionable-“patriotism,” “rebirth,” “mobilization,” “order,” “dignity,” “national community,” and so forth. Though there is an enormous public interest in Nazism and the Holocaust, specialists in these fields often are all too aware of the difficulty of conveying the mood, the feel, the logic, which lay beneath the surface of the Third Reich. The present book by Robert Michael and Karin Doerr, a historian and a Germanist respectively, is an invaluable key that will enable the reader who has no German to gain access to the inner thought patterns and sensibilities of German antisemitic and Nazi mentalities alike. To all those betrayed and injured by German words during the Shoah. To my friend and colleague, the late Stig Hornshøj-Møller, a brilliant scholar who died in his prime, a human being who devoted his life to gaining and using knowledge to fight against evil. To those good people in Germany and elsewhere in the world who cared and who helped those on the run from murder. To the six million dead Jews and to all the victims of Nazism. Nazi-Deutsch: An Ideological Language of Exclusion, Domination, and Annihilation by Karin Doerr The Tradition of Anti-Jewish Language by Robert Michael Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2001042328 ISBN: 6-X First published in 2002 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Copyright © 2002 by Robert Michael and Karin Doerr All rights reserved. National socialism-Terminology-Dictionaries. German language-Government jargon-Dictionaries. Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Michael, Robert, 1936– Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi German : an English lexicon of the language of the Third Reich / Robert Michael and Karin Doerr forewords by Paul Rose, Leslie Morris and Wolfgang Mieder. Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi German An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reichįorewords by Paul Rose Leslie Morris Wolfgang Mieder

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