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‘The Nazi regime used language and media with care, and often to great effect the terms they coined to describe their various activities are not only deceptive. They are chilling.’ Explain.

Nazis never used the words ‘kill’ or ‘murder’ in their official communications. Special treatment meant mass killing, final solution for the Jews, euthanasia for the disabled. Evacuation meant deporting people to gas chambers, gas chambers were called disinfection-areas. They looked like bathrooms with fake showerheads.


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