10 Years After

Excuse Me But Pardon My French

I've been thinking of doing my research papper in my Holocaust history on the use of language by the Nazis in dealing with the Jews. In particular I've found the use of scientific metaphors to dehumanize the Jews and, at the same time, support a "scientific
rascism to be interesting. The professor (and a student in the class who is also a linguistic emphasis English major) said that the topic sounded interesting. Hopefully I can find enough information to do a paper on the topic.
The day before talking to the professor I picked up a collection of essays by George Orwell which included this interesting passage:

Kipling is the only English writer of our time who has added phrases to the language. The phrases and neologisms which we take over and use without remembering their origin do not always come from writers we admire. It is strange, for instance, to hear the Nazi broadcasters referring to the Russian soldiers as "robots," thus unconsciously borrowing a word from a Czech democrat whom they would have killed if they could have laid hands on him.