The Japanese Journal of Language in Society
Online ISSN : 2189-7239
Print ISSN : 1344-3909
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The Role of the Language in the Medical Crime of Nazi Germany(<Special Issue>Language Use in Interaction)
Masahiro YOSHIDA
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2008 Volume 10 Issue 2 Pages 158-172

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In this article, I concentrated on the Nazi doctors who committed crimes against their patients in the name of medical care and attempted to examine the ideology which characterized that society by analyzing their discourses linguistically. Firstly, I discribed the formation process of the social context that was important for discourse analysis in terms of eugenics, nationalism, and totalitarianism. Secondly, I interpreted the discourses of the doctors of the Third Reich from various angles to identify their members' resource. In conclusion they seemed to have had several members' resource mixed together: eugenics, nationalism, and totalitarianism. In addition, members' resource in the medical circle of the Third Reich had shaded into ideology through their discourse. And once the medical crimes had occurred, their ideology had urged to do it with Nazi rhetoric that hide the nature of the crimes and the aspect of anti-humanism until the end of the WW II.
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