Trübners »Deutsches Wörterbuch« - Ein Wörterbuch Aus Der Zeit Des Nationalsozialismus

The study is devoted to a dictionary that has aroused considerable controversy, although it has never in fact been exhaustively investigated. Of especial interest are the first four volumes (analyzed here), in which there are appreciable indications of the influence of national socialism on German lexicography in the 1930s and 1940s. The nature and scope of these influences are determined via reconstruction of the history of the dictionary s publication, analysis of its structure, and investigation of the ideological elements discernible in the entries. The reasons for both the appreciation and the rejection of the dictionary thus become identifiable."