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Edelmensch

English translation: Noble Men

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German term or phrase:Edelmensch
English translation:Noble Men
Entered by: aykon

15:14 Oct 7, 2020
German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History / Drittes Reich
German term or phrase: Edelmensch
Noch zwei Jahre vorher ist er (Hitler) beeindruckt von einem Vortrag von Karl May, der letzte Vortrag, den Karl May überhaupt hält, über den Pazifismus und über den Edelmenschen und die Zukunft, in dem Bertha von Suttner, die Friedensnobelpreisträgerin eine Rolle spielt.
aykon
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:14
Noble Men
Explanation:
The lecture he gave is translated into English as ‘Upward to the Realm of Noble Men’:
He turned deliberately to pacifism and wrote several books about the raising of humans from "evil" to "good". His friendship with the artist Sascha Schneider lead to new symbolistic covers for the Fehsenfeld edition. May experienced approval on 22 March 1912 and was invited by the Academic Society for Literature and Music in Vienna to hold a talk, Empor ins Reich der Edelmenschen ("Upward to the Realm of Noble Men")

https://www.poemhunter.com/karl-may/biography/

Obviously, you have entered the term in the singular and I have answered in the plural of the title.
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:14
Grading comment
Thanks. Found it :-)
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Noble Men


Explanation:
The lecture he gave is translated into English as ‘Upward to the Realm of Noble Men’:
He turned deliberately to pacifism and wrote several books about the raising of humans from "evil" to "good". His friendship with the artist Sascha Schneider lead to new symbolistic covers for the Fehsenfeld edition. May experienced approval on 22 March 1912 and was invited by the Academic Society for Literature and Music in Vienna to hold a talk, Empor ins Reich der Edelmenschen ("Upward to the Realm of Noble Men")

https://www.poemhunter.com/karl-may/biography/

Obviously, you have entered the term in the singular and I have answered in the plural of the title.

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 105
Grading comment
Thanks. Found it :-)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: Though I would leave it in German, with an explanation if necessary. The same goes for Nietzsche's Übermensch.
19 mins
  -> Thanks, Phil. The title definitely should remain in German, with an English translation in brackets. I guess it is up to the author whether the term is then repeated in German or English. I would probably go for German, but it depends on the audience.
agree  William Howden
23 mins
  -> Thanks, William
agree  Simon Vigneault
30 mins
  -> Thanks, Simon
agree  Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
31 mins
  -> Thanks, Natalija
agree  Wendy Streitparth
23 hrs
  -> Thanks, Wendy
agree  Klaus Beyer
2 days 34 mins
  -> Thank you, Klaus
agree  Veronika Neuhold
3 days 5 hrs
  -> Thank you, Veronika
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