When I was a student in East Germany in the seventies, the suspicion that there was something wrong with the language of my school days, the German of the Workers’ and Peasants’ State, was borne out by reading the distorted German of the war years.
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Diary: Durs Grünbein, Linguistic Devastation
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When I was a student in East Germany in the seventies, the suspicion that there was something wrong with the language of my school days, the German of the Workers’ and Peasants’ State, was borne out by reading the distorted German of the war years.