Consider some excerpts from Victor Klemperer’s “The Language Of the Third Reich. Klemperer survived 1933-1945 because of his marriage to an Aryan. He kept detailed diaries, which have also been published.
- 3 – “The fear of the thinking man and the hatred of the intellect..”
l5 – “..Nazism permeated the flesh and blood of the people through single words, idioms and sentence structures..imposed on them in a million repetitions..”
”And what happens if the..language is made up of poisonous elements or has been made the bearer of poisons? Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic..”
23 – “The sole purpose of [Nazi language] is to strip everyone of their individuality, to paralyze them as personalities, to make them into unthinking and docile cattle..”
48 - ”untermensch”. 94 – “racial defilement” 149 – “liquidated” 150 – “the final solution”
l54 – “force into line” 161 – “Nordified” 169 – “gone away” 186 – “collected”
228 – “a defensive war on the move”
108 – “But the Fuhrer announced only recently that we are definitely going to win. And he has never lied yet. I believe in Hitler. No, God wouldn’t leave him in the lurch.”
111- ”..the Fuhrer again and again underlined his uniquely close relationship with the Godhead, his special status as the chosen one, his religious mission.”
112 – “From 1933 to 1945..this elevation of the Fuhrer to the status of a god, this alignment of his person and his actions with the Savior and the Bible, took place day by day..”
113 – “In the announcement for the election of 1938 to ratify the annexation of Austria, in the endorsement of Greater Germany, it is claimed..Hitler is an agent of Providence.”
117 – “..Nazism was accepted by millions as gospel because it appropriated the language of the gospel.”
163 - ”The definitive expression for the [Nazis], both lexically and conceptually, is ‘Fortress Europe’. [honorable continent, betrayed by England, Russian and American threats]
175 – “[Hitler] knows..he can only expect loyalty from those who inhabit a similarly primitive world..the..most effective means of keeping them there is to nurture, legitimize and..glorify the instinctive hatred of the Jews.”
176 – “The Jew is the most important person in Hitler’s state:..the popular scapegoat, the most plausible adversary. Had the Fuhrer..achieved his aim of exterminating all..Jews, he would have had to invent new ones, because without the Jewish devil..there never would have been the radiant figure of the Nordic Teuton.”
176 - ”Hitler’s..instructions of the Party..The golden rule is always: don’t let your listeners engage in critical thought, deal with everything simplistically!…reduce everything to a common denominator..”
177 - ”..whatever actions are taken, they are..defensive measures [against] murderous Jewish attacks on Hitler’s Germany..peace-loving Germans are only..defending ourselves.”
215 – Nazi use of superlatives: ”biggest” “best” “greatest” “total” “historic”
217 – “The extraordinary thing was the shameless transparency of the lies revealed by the figures; one of the fundamentals of Nazi doctrine is the conviction that the masses are unthinking and that their minds can be completely dulled.”
221 – “There can’t be a single speech of the Fuhrer that doesn’t long-windedly list Germany’s successes and sarcastically insult the enemy.”
237 – “The whole emotional mendacity of Nazism, the whole mortal sin of deliberately twisting things founded on reason into the realm of emotions, and deliberate distortion for the sake of sentimental mystification…”
256 – “But the consummate and most characteristic feature of the Nazi art of language..the real achievement..lies in the unscrupulous mixture of heterogeneous stylistic elements..in the most abruptly antithetical leaps from a learned tone to a proletarian one, from sobriety to the tone of the preacher, from icy rationalism to the sentimentality of a manfully repressed tear..no time for critical reasoning…”
NOW – go back over this 1933-45 eyewitness account. In recent years, have YOU seen a reenactment of this language strategy? A certain politician claims that he has never read anything about this era, knows nothing of the main practitioner of these words and strategies….. However, his first wife, in a major national publication, said this man Did have a copy of Hitler’s speeches by his bed……………. And, we all “know” that this second man “..has never lied yet.”
With Justice For All 