Bravo. Fine additions to your collection. When you don't want them, I will happily buy them.
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The specifications and regulations are actually very hard to read unless you have a pretty refined command of the German of the time.
Bravo. Fine additions to your collection. When you don't want them, I will happily buy them.
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The specifications and regulations are actually very hard to read unless you have a pretty refined command of the German of the time.
Very true, I am finding it quite difficult but I enjoy the challenge.
I have been reading this kind of German for forty years and more and also I encounter it, may I say, in other facets of life.
For the beginner, however, it is not easy, as some of the Nazi German is actually quite awful in grammar and such.
This fact especially applies to the RZM orders and the SS orders, too, which bespeaks the abysmal level of education of many of these people.
Deutsche Welle had a piece now about Trachten, i.e. traditional folk costume, and how haute couture is rediscovering something of tradition and the world of the peasant as it was on the brink of the industrial revolution. This trend arises
from the globalization of Oktoberfest but also from the less peaceful movements in this, our century.
Tailoring for those in command communicated this power as well as virility and manliness and such. It was thus in the world of the estates prior to 1789, and it was especially so in the time of revolutionary war and Napoleon.
Today we are all made to look like the benighted in Lang's Metropolis, or in Soylent Green.
Little done by Schickelgruber was unique, save for its scale and its eventual culmination in world war and genocide.
No one should think that the uniform trade was a little island of apolitical group love and cosmopolitan bliss. On the contrary, it was a fighting front in the racial war in urban settings, especially in such place as Berlin and Vienna.
I spend a lot of time editing texts in German and in English, and the lousy grammar of these puffed up RZM and SS documents is overwhelming.
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 08-02-2015 at 06:15 AM.
Andreas already knows this book, but others can well profit from its reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E...Tertii_Imperii
Last edited by Friedrich-Berthold; 08-02-2015 at 04:49 AM.
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