The Language of the Third Reich

FIRST PUBLISHED in 1947, Victor Klemperer's Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen (“The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist's Notebook,” or LTI) remains one of the most influential works on National Socialism. LTI is a firsthand account, drawing upon conversations, newspaper articles, radio commentaries, nonfiction, and novels of the time. Klemperer was not only a competent scholar, but also a witness and victim of the regime; LTI was assembled from his diaries.