LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii

LTI - Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen (1947) is a book by Victor Klemperer, Professor of French at the University of Dresden. The title, half in Latin and half in German, translates to (literally) About the language of the Third Reich -- Notes of a Philologist.

Related Topics:
1947 - Victor Klemperer - French - Dresden - Latin - German

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Lingua Tertii Imperii studies the way that Nazi propaganda altered regular the German language to educate people into National-Socialist ideas. The book was written under the form of personal notes which Klemperer wrote in his diary, especially from the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, and even more after 1935, when Klemperer, stripped of his academic title because he was Jewish (under the Nuremberg Laws), had to work in a factory and started to use his diary as a personal exit to his frustrating and miserable life.

Related Topics:
Nazi - Propaganda - 1933 - 1935 - Jewish - Nuremberg Laws

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It underlines odd constructions of words intended to give a "scientific" or neutral aspect to otherwise heavily engaged discourses, as well as significant every-day behaviour.

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