Contents

pp v-vi

Introduction: The German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah

pp 1-6

German Language and National Socialism Today: Still a German “Sonderweg”?

pp 7-24

Clear Wording or “Historical” Euphemisms? Conceptual Controversies Surrounding the Naming of National Socialist Memorial Sites in Germany

pp 25-42

The Language of the Perpetrators

pp 43-44

“Lieber, guter Onkel Hitler”: A Linguistic Analysis of the Letter as a National Socialist Text-Type and a Re-evaluation of the “Sprache im/des Nationalsozialismus” Debate

pp 45-58

“German was heard so often in our Dutch home”: German Nazi Refugees in the Netherlands and Their Ambivalent Relationship with Their Mother Tongue

pp 59-72

“Whose text is it anyway?” Influences on a Refugee Memoir

pp 73-88

Stigma and Performance: Victor Klemperer’s Language-Critical Reflections on Anti-Semitic Hate Speech

pp 89-104

Literary Language

pp 105-106

Reinventing Invented Tradition: Vergangenheitsbewältigung and the Literature of Melancholy

pp 107-124

“Even the word ‘und’ has to be re-invented somehow”: Quoting the Language of the Perpetrators in Texts by Anne Duden

pp 125-142

“Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold”: German as a Site of Fascist Nostalgia and Romanian as the Language of Dictatorship in the Work of Herta Müller

pp 143-158

The Power of Language and Silence: Reinhard Jirgl’s Die Stille

pp 159-174

Words and Music

pp 175-176

“Disrupted Language, Disrupted Culture”: Hanns Eisler’s Hollywooder Liederbuch (1942-43)

pp 177-198

“and all of a sudden, in the middle of it, they began singing …”: Languages and Commemoration in Arnold Schoenberg’s Cantata A Survivor from Warsaw (Op. 46)

pp 199-216

Translation

pp 217-218

Understanding a Perpetrator in Translation: Presenting Rudolf Höß, Commandant of Auschwitz, to Readers of English

pp 219-234

Translating Testimony: Jakob Littner’s Typescript and the Versions of Wolfgang Koeppen and Kurt Nathan Grübler

pp 235-250