The Language of Thieves. The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family`s Secret History

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The story of the secret language of Central Europe and its legacy on the author`s hidden Nazi family history, from the author of The Written World.
Since the Middle Ages, vagrants and thieves in Central Europe have spoken Rotwelsch, a secret language influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs. When Martin Puchner inherited a family archive, it led him on a journey into this extraordinary language but also into his family`s connections to the Nazi Party, for whom Rotwelsch held a par

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