Hitler and the German Language?

Question

Does anyone know where I can get information on Hitler and how he felt about the German language?
I am doing a paper on Hitler and his ideology of the Aryan Culture of India? I am trying to put together how the Aryan's felt about language and how he felt about Indo-European language being derived from Sanskirt. Can anyone help, paper due Saturday. :D

Answer 1

Oh, you have a topic worthy of a doctoral thesis here lady! Hitler was a full blown Germanic freak. But he SUCKED at the German language himself. He was a high school drop-out with a very limited knowledge of his native language. He was also an Austrian by birth, which is a different country from Germany (although he incorporated it into his "Reich" by force early in his political career), with a different Germanic dialect. The dialectual differences between the various German states (and they were independent states until Bismarck united them in 1871) are legion. You could get a doctoral thesis off that subject alone! Most of what Hitler knew about so-called Aryan culture came from the pseudo-mystical Thul Society, and it was all made-up pro-German pap like Wagner's operas (Hitler was a big fan of those and that's probably where he learned what little he knew about German/Aryan history). As to how he felt about the Indo-European language (called Aryan in Hitler's time -- it was changed to "Indo-European" because Hitler so discredited the term "Aryan") being derived from Sanskrit, the putz probably didn't even know that! He was many things, but a scholar, he definately was not! Incidently, in case you didn't know, nearly all modern European languages can be traced to Sanskrit, not just German, although many have had considerable Latin influence that German never got because the Romans never conquered Germany. A tribal leader of the old Cherusi tribe named Herman (called Herminius or Arminius in Latin) slaughtered 3 Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest in the year 9 A.D. That was a blow from which the Roman Empire never recovered. The boundary was set at the Rhine River from then on. I suppose that battle led directly to everything in German history that transpired afterwards, including that creep Hitler! He owed his career far more to an obscure tribal chieftan historians have dubbed "Herman the German" than to any so-called Aryan history, either real, or romanticized.

Answer 2

German was his native language and I don't know if he even spoke any other language, probably not. I don't know of any statement he ever made about language. Probably he considered the German language as somehow "superior".
He had no ideology of the Aryan culture of India, although "Aryan" was one of the most frequently used words in Nazi ideology, but they meant non-Jewish Europeans by these "Aryans". Actually "Aryan" was mostly used synonymously with "non-Jewish". People in Germany then had to prove they were "Aryan" and that meant to show documents that neither they, nor their parents or grandparents were Jewish. It had absolutely nothing to do with Indians. On the contrary, blue eyes and blond hair were seen as the racial ideal what is not exactly what Indians look like, and the Gypsies, who originally come from India, were killed systematically for their alleged racial inferiority.
When you ask about how the "Aryans" felt, I don't know who you mean, Germans or Indians. India was never occupied by Germany and they had very little to do with Nazis, so I don't think they thought much about it. Germans too probably didn't think much about language, the language was German, period. As the Nazis wanted to rule the world and subjugate everyone else I don't think they felt it necessary to learn other languages. I am not sure if foreign languages were even taught at all in Germany during the Nazi time, well, Latin and ancient Greek were probably taught. I have never heard that anywhere in Nazi ideology Sanskrit was even mentioned or that anyone thought about it any way.

I think this wasn't a big help, but honestly this is a very strange topic for a paper as the Nazis really didn't care about India. I hope you understand that bcptm's answer is sarcastic.

Answer 3

Something used to be critically misplaced in translation right here. The declare is that a today's German can not communicate with their possess grandparents, or that in the event you noticed a ebook or a film from the Nineteen Thirties you could not comprehend it? I quite do not believe so. Edit: I'm harassed. Some of the individuals you are speakme approximately are from Germany, others are Pennsylvania Dutch. I can not work out who's from what historical past, or what any one needed to do with Hitler. The language of the Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect descended from settlers who arrived 2 hundred-three hundred years in the past or so. It's had time to move far from today's German, and the ones settlers could have spoken a nearby dialect to start with. What could Hitler need to do with any of that?

Answer 4

lol. In highschool, we learn that Sanskrit is derived from Indo-European, not the other way around. Most of what we know off Indo-European did started with a single study about the similarities of Sanskrit and some european languages. It has proven to be a valuable resource ever since.

At least, that's what they teach us here.

Answer 5

~Adolf Hitler was born of a Germano-Austrian father and a Sudaten-Hindi mother and, in his early years, was raised as a Buddhist Moslem. From this indoctrination, he progressed to the logical next step of Shinto-Taoism and his hatred of the Jews and Jehovah Witnesses was born (would that not be inevitable? Unfortunately, the few months he spent in the Troksky Pioneers was insufficient to distill the anti-Semitic teachings of his Umatilla mentors). Once his religious bent was established, his linguistic prejudices necessarily followed and he began writing his personal diaries in Gaelic-Sanskrit with an unecessarily heavy influence of Salishan idioms. He toyed with the idea of establishing Irokese as the Teutonic language of choice but resistance from his staunch allies, the Serbs and the Mosada Majdanek-Florstedts caused him to delay his plans and to allow the largely Latin based Germanic language of the north central Teutons to continue in general usage throughout the early 1940's. Hitler and his inner circle including Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Simon Weisenthal, exchanged all internal high command communiques utilizing Hitler's preferred Third Reich language of Hanyu Pinyin for all official documents. Although he allowed German to be spoken by the masses within his empire, his personal diaries and his correspondence with his chief lieutenants, such as Weisenthal and General Rodion Ia. Malinovsky clearly establish that his ultimate goal was to install the Indo-Eurasian language of Pilau as the official language of the Third Reich.

Answer 6

I wouldn't normally suggest plagarism, but just copy bcptm's. It's brilliant. Especially the title.

Answer 7

sanskrit from indo-european? what highschool did you go to?? that is absolutely false. sanskrit predates indo eurpean language....hence...INDO european.

open a book kid.

Answer 8

start with neitzche and "God is dead"