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Death in the German Official Language as Exemplified by Jürgen Stroop’s Report
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 12 (2016), Pages: 35-69
Submission Date: 2020-10-19Publication Date: 2016-11-30
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.404
Abstract
This article analyzes the language used by Jürgen Stroop in his report Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr! (English title: The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More!). Comparing the report on the suppression of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto with Friedrich Katzmann’s report from the District of Galicia and the reports prepared by Einsatzgruppen, the author juxtaposes the semantic manipulations in the text, which are characteristic of the language in the Third Reich, with the rhetorical structures typical of combat (war) descriptions. Seen from this perspective, Stroop’s report appears to be torn between an execution of the classic report model, which, in its content and form, continues the tradition of Nazi reports about killing, and a military report, which enables Stroop to talk about killing openly, as befits the war convention. The author analyzes both the report’s semantic layer and the photographic material. The context for the analysis is the comparison of Stroop’s language with that of German reports on the uprising of 1944 as well as an overview of the departure from the military model in talking about the uprising in Jewish historiography.
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Warsaw ghetto uprising , fficial language , LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii) , report , Jürgen Stroop
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