Camp slang persists among survivors yet needs translation even for Germans

Evidence

One might want to speak here of an exception-an extreme case-that ruled or governed an entire discourse long before World War II and continued to do so during and most disturbingly, perhaps, after, and to this very day. That single word-but there are others-is the one word I have been trying to follow here by tracing something like a theologico-political history of absolute subjection. It is a word that, in English, remains insistently, if inconsistently untranslated and instead transliterated. That word is Muselmann-in the plural, Muse/manner, Muslims. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 680 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Concentration-camp language forces a translation that must always fail; Nazi language hid atrocity not by silence but by misusing words; Camp language reveals the gray-zone partaking binding victims and perpetrators — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 679 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The camp term Muselmann names absolute subjection and resists translation #corroborates (0.92) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 680
• Nazi vocabulary of love, faith, and homeland functioned as criminal language #complicates (0.75)