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What happens if the cultivated language is made up of poisonous elements or has been made the bearer of poisons? Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.

Victor Klemperer

A confused state of mind, equally close to sickness and criminality, was for twelve years [of Nazi rule] held to be the greatest virtue.

Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer

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Born: October 9, 1881

Died: February 11, 1960 (aged 78)

Bio: Victor Klemperer was a diarist whose journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic.

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LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii (1947)

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