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This chapter outlines the regime’s attempts to regulate (‘co-ordinate’) the public discourse and impose its ideological norms through terror, censorship, secret ‘Sprachregelungen’ (instructions on usage issued to the media), and semantic re-codification, evidenced by the case of the Duden dictionary. The concluding section focuses on uncertainties concerning the ideological status of the German language as a ‘third force’ of racial ideology (alongside Blut and Boden) and reveals how after much confusion (reflecting contradictory positions within the regime) this particular ‘language question’ was emphatically resolved by Hitler personally, in decrees banning the use of Gothic typeface (Fraktur) and any criticisms of loan vocabulary (the ‘Fremdwort’). The chapter concludes with observations on the reach of mother-tongue fascism under National Socialism, despite the regime’s rebuttal of linguistic purism. |
