Amtssprache

Amtssprache: denial responsibility... I had no choice...

Amtssprache This expression was used by Nazi officials to describe a bureaucratic language that denies choice, with words like: "should," "have to," "ought," "must," "need to," "got to."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9-3bMAGBw Marshall Rosenberg Talks about Eichmann's language.