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With the outbreak of the Second World War, the inmate population of the Nazi concentration camps became increasingly international. Captives representing “35 to 40 different national or ethnic groups” (116)… Click to show full abstract
With the outbreak of the Second World War, the inmate population of the Nazi concentration camps became increasingly international. Captives representing “35 to 40 different national or ethnic groups” (116) were engulfed in a chaotic multilingualism prevailing at these sites of terror. Deported to Auschwitz III Monowitz in 1944, Primo Levi observed that in the Buna plant “fifteen to twenty languages are spoken.” (80) Understanding German was a sine qua non for survival.
Keywords:
nazi concentration;
interpreting nazi;
primo levi;
concentration camps
Journal Title: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Year Published: 2019
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