Based on the premise that language is political and thus accomplishes political action, this article analyzes Nazi occupation propaganda in occupied northeastern Italy for the period from November 1943 to January 19451. Using the example of written language of the SS propaganda unit “Kommando Adria,” which has hardly been considered in research, and which was deployed in the Adriatic Litoral, a differentiation is made between internal communication and propaganda directed outward 2. Central questions of the analysis are: What linguistic means did the Adria Kommando use to accompany the German occupation regime? How did internal communiqués differ linguistically from the propaganda produced for the widest possible public? And finally, to what extent did language specifics exist for the multi-ethnic area inhabited equally by Italians, Slovenes and Croats
