Mainstream WeeklyFrom International Literature. No. 4. April, 1935
A fascinating and frighteningly familiar, look at the anti-intellectual language of emotional obfuscation employed by the Nazis from Marxist linguist Trude Richter. With a dramatic and fascinating biography, Richter was a teacher and literary critic who became secretary of the German Association of Proletarian-Revolutionary Authors in 1931. An active Communist, after a year of underground work, escaped to the Soviet Union in 1934 where she finished her post-doctoral work and taught linguistics. Arrested with her husband during the Purges in November 1936, she would spend almost two decades in Siberian labour camps, where her husband died of typhus in 1938. Remaining a committed anti-fascist and Communist, after her final release in 1953 and