Friedrich Markewitz

The rigid cultural and language policy of the National Socialists, which began immediately after their seizure of power, resulted not only in a comprehensive levelling and de-differentiation of language styles, but also an attempted standardisation of the world of text types in the ‘Third Reich’. This turned a large number of opposing into banned texts, partly due to the groups of actors producing them and the content conveyed by the texts. In this article, one type of banned text produced by groups of resisters shall be examined as an example: Camouflage writings produced by the communist resistance, by means of which camouflaged resistance literature was to be smuggled into the discursive hermeticism of Hitler's Germany. mehr