Word: mmerung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts to what is already known about the period, the diaries, covering Feb. 27 through April 9, convey a sharp sense of immediacy and give West Germans an intimate glimpse of how one of the brutal regime's leaders viewed the Nazi Götterdämmerung...
...affluence for a majority of its populace more successfully than its near neighbors. Moreover, acknowledging the zeal (however misplaced) of idealists is one thing; quite another is accepting, at face value, the radical claims of a violent adventurist movement with no moral vision beyond Götterdämmerung. West Germans somehow ought to be assured that the world will not think badly of them for interfering with the work of those who wish to destroy them. - Lance Morrow
...begins with a vaguely Brooksian premise: Hitler was "an ordinary, walking, talking human weighing some 155 pounds, with graying hair, largely false teeth, and chronic digestive ailments.'' He was not, Irving continues, the lone maniac exclusively responsible for bringing down European civilization in Götterdämmerung. This singular chronicle of World War II displays a quiet and sometimes fascinating empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked to the Führer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler's medications...
...meeting in New York. Eighteen teams compete in the N.H.L., some subsidiaries of large conglomerates. No significant cash appeared, and at length the owners could not decide whether to bury the Barons quietly to Chopin or more dramatically to Siegfried's funeral music from Götterdämmerung...
Porter does well with Brünnhilde's noble, ardent "Willst du mir Minne schenken" sung to Siegfried in Götterdämmerung. Wagner wrote...