Word: mmerung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage, the beefy Wagnerian gods of Gotterdämmerung snorted and bellowed in their Valhalla. In the wings, a huge Siegfried, mounted on a ladder, sagged his 230 Ibs. down onto waiting shoulders to be borne on stage. "I'm getting too fat for this," grumbled hefty Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. A warrior-god charged into musty corners, looking for his sword; bored spear carriers fumbled through a prop basket full of hunting horns. Behind the backdrop a ragged army of stagehands lounged on the rocks of the Rhine (out of use for the moment), gulping coffee from paper cartons...
...daily notes, was the best composite picture of Göring & Co. Most persuasive of the speculations about Hitler was H. R. Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler, a skillful reconstruction, from evidence that was necessarily circumstantial but convincing, of the bunker Götterdämmerung. Those who thought there were no '"good" Germans might have changed their minds after reading Allen Welsh Dulles' Germany's Underground and To the Bitter End, a history of the German plots against Hitler, by Hans Gisevius, one of the plotters. In End of a Berlin Diary...
...tterdämmerung. In Durban, South Africa, one A. Hitler was arrested and charged with assaulting his friend, Eva Braun...
...Nietzsche's The Case of Wagner: "One pays dearly for having been a follower of Wagner. . . . Wagner's stage requires but one thing: Germans! .. [and] Germans themselves have no future." Nor did Hitler look deeply into the final cataclysmic scene of his beloved Götterdämmerung, for which Wagner himself had written the program note: "The will that wanted to shape an entire world according to its wish can finally attain nothing more satisfactory than . . . annihilation...
Last week Hamburg's official Nazi radio station dutifully, tirelessly played excerpts from Götterdämmerung for an hour, then made its announcement: Adolf Hitler was dead...