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Word: bermenschen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

Modern nations as well as primitive tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years. Hitler meant to inject his vulgar sacred time into profane time, but the sacred can never intrude for more than an instant. Any longer, and the results are monstrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Time and the Falklands | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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