VV(12): Benjamin --> Klemperer

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks, I will!  This is available here as ...

Klemperer, Victor.  The Language of the Third Reich:  
 Lingua Tertii Imperii.  Trans. Martin Brady.
   New York and London: Athlone Press, 1999.

And I believe this is the same Victor Klemperer as the
author of the recently translated ...

Klemperer, Victor.  I Will Bear Witness:
   A Diary of the Nazi Years.  2 vols.  Trans.
   Michael Chalmers.  NY: Random House, 1999-2000.

Though I don't know that he's related to the late
Werner Klemperer at all.  By the way, am curious, any
of the Europeans, and, esp. the Germans on the list
ever see the American sitcome, "Hogan's Heroes"?  Set
in a Luftwaffe P.O.W. camp?  WK, a Jew whose family
had fled the Nazis (his father was the famous
symphonic conductor), played the lovable screw-up
commandant, Colonel Klink.  One wonders how this even
got on the air.  TV Land (an "oldies" cable station
here) has been running whole evenings of it lately,
though ...


--- Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> > (...) The logical result of Fascism is the
> introduction of aesthetics into political life. The
> > violation of the masses, whom Fascism, with its
> Fuhrer cult, forces to their knees, has its
> > counterpart in the violation of an apparatus which
> is pressed into the production of ritual values.
> > (241) (...)
> 
> Not to mention what fascism did to language. See
> 'LCI' by Victor Klemperer (Lingua Tertii Imperii) in
> which mr. Klemperer, who kept a diary during the
> period,  states that nazism, by corrupting language,
> was helpful in creating a distance between what
> happened in Germany at the time, and how it was
> conceived by the German people.  Hence the many,
> ultimately meaningless abbreviations of which we see
> echoes in Gravity's Rainbow.
> 
> Michel.
> 
> 
> 


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