National Socialist Conception of Science and murderous language [langage meurtrier

This article in its first part exposes some of the characteristic features of National Socialist conception of science sunk in its volkisch ideology, and names some of its regressive social consequences, such as affirmation of aggressive anti-intellectualism, degradation of basic scientific research and intellectual work, dictatorship of mediocrity etc. Whereas in its second part, the article shows the dispositive of Nazi-Deutsch, that is a Nazi language/discourse, and delineates mechanisms of its agency. Discourse of the Third Reich, which Jean-Pierre Faye named langage meurtrier (murderous or killing language), is a reduction of complex and varied usages of speech to one single one - a ritually-incantatory one. As such this language stimulated unthinking (unthought) and spontaneously intuitive, thus completely ideological activities of people. Though as an invasive form of rhetoric camouflage and propaganda discourse of the Third Reich had a very precise and murderous effects in reality, the ultimate manifestation of these effects was in genocide, which is why some of authors also name it a genocide language. Adapted from the source document