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  • Frontcover; Contents; Introduction: The German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah; German Language and National Socialism Today: Still a German "Sonderweg"?; Clear Wording or "Historical" Euphemisms? Conceptual Controversies Surrounding the Naming of National Socialist Memorial Sites in Germany; The Language of the Perpetrators; "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
  • "German was heard so often in our Dutch home": German Nazi Refugees in the Netherlands and Their Ambivalent Relationship with Their Mother Tongue"Whose text is it anyway?" Influences on a Refugee Memoir; Stigma and Performance: Victor Klemperer's Language-Critical Reflections on Anti-Semitic Hate Speech; Literary Language; Reinventing Invented Tradition: Vergangenheitsbewältigung and the Literature of Melancholy; "Even the word 'und' has to be re-invented somehow": Quoting the Language of the Perpetrators in Texts by Anne Duden
  • "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 MüllerThe Power of Language and Silence: Reinhard Jirgl's Die Stille; Words and Music; "Disrupted Language, Disrupted Culture": Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch (1942-43); "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); Translation