So what?

It's undeniable the importance of Victor Klemperer's diary for studies in philosophy of language. Philologist and french literature specialist, Klemperer lost not just his post in university, but also his right for walking into libraries, just for having a jewish family background during the Nazi party ascension to power.

Reading his diary, published in 1947, we can see the transition of a self-recognised german researcher intending to write his book on the XVII french thought to a jewish destitute of his occupation, having as his research material only the language spoken by people under the Third Reich. This language which Klemperer chooses to call LTI (Lingua Tertii Imperii) is the major subject of his book.

What Klemperer got from his studies on XVII century to his analysis on the language created for fascist ideological purposes was the major difference between Absolutism and the newborn Fascism. It is manly the difference between a government system in which people abdicate to their power of politic decision to have guarded their individual freedom and a government system in which even the individual freedom is taken away, controled by a language of one purpose - the self-recognition as mass obedient to a Führer's interests.

The famous american literature critic Harold Bloom used to recall, quoting Emerson:

 "Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive."

There's a strict relation between the living language and death. Klemperer was more suspicious of it and called words "little arsenic doses" whose toxic effect just can be felt after long periods of exposure of it.

To forget the puissance of language on affecting individuals is the same of forgetting the power of language on affecting politics. Even, or speacially, when rights are in equal stage with individual freedom, there's a need of remembering the toxic effect a phrase can get when repeated and pronounced by killing gestures of contempt.