This two-volume book follows the guiding principle of a linguistic social history of Nazism. The volume not only analyses the linguistic-communicative practices of the Nazi apparatus and its sympathisers but also the practices of the people excluded as well as resistance members. The first volume describes both the characteristic communicative behaviour during Nazism, in particular the practice of inclusion/exclusion to create a community, and situation-specific forms of acting (e.g. complaining) and interacting (e.g. during the trial against resistance fighters of 20 July).