Language was both victim and causal agent of the Nazi genocide

Evidence

Berel Lang writes that “language was at once victim of the genocide and one agent of many among its causes.” In its becoming instrumentalized, language is “detached from history and nature and finally also from moral judgment” (Lang, Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide, 81-84, quoted in Sullam Calimani, 62). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1193

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that instrumentalized language detaches from history, nature, and moral judgment resonates with the chapters’ sustained argument about Nazi speech (LTI) as a distinct phenomenon.