Word: gestapo
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...symphony struck such a resonant chord? The texts, which include a 15th century monastic lament, a mournful folk song about the death of a child and, most movingly, a brief prayer to the Virgin inscribed on the wall of a Gestapo prison by an 18-year-old Polish girl, evoke a sunless world of pain and suffering. The ineffable music, which unfolds seamlessly from small, minimalist melodic motifs, evolves into a soaring Brucknerian cathedral. Hardly the stuff of which gold records are made...
Ryan left OSI in early 1983 to prepare a report for Attorney General William French Smith on Klaus Barbie, the onetime chief of the Nazi Gestapo in Lyon, France, widely known as "The Butcher of Lyon...
...reclusive former high government official was neither accidental nor a suicide. March is unusually good at his job, and until now this has allowed him to get away with being openly apolitical. But as pressure builds to drop the murder inquiry, March learns that his own loyalty is under Gestapo investigation...
Then matters darken and deepen. March, harassed by Gestapo thugs, finds documents showing that Buhler was present at a high-level conference at Wannsee on Jan. 20, 1942. Another who attended was Adolf Eichmann. The meeting dealt with a concept March has never heard mentioned: "the final solution of * the Jewish question" and the planning of death camps. In shock he takes the papers and, with the Gestapo close behind, commandeers a car in a desperate run to the Swiss border...
...Nonesuch, with David Zinman conducting soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta. The tenebrous string texture is punctuated by Upshaw's ethereally intoning a 15th century Polish lament and, later, a mother's dirge for her murdered son, whose words were inscribed in 1944 on the wall of a Gestapo prison. The result is chilling, moving, unique. With the collapse of communism, Poland's reclusive Gorecki, 59, is just now finding his way into the international spotlight. May it shine upon...