Book review
Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-tongue fascism, race, and the science of language By Christopher M. Hutton ( Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics, 1).
London & New York: Routledge, 1999. x, 416 pp.

Reviewed by Werner Hüllen
University of Essen
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