Word: mmerung
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Ushers for Götterdämmerung. Armies did not wait for high politics. Occupation was a fact, carried out under long-prepared directives as detailed as they could be without decisions on what occupation was intended to accomplish...
...fight in the south may be tougher. Allied victory there is sure, but the shape of victory depends to some extent on the Germans' choice. They may put up a prolonged display of Götterdämmerung fireworks in the mountains of Bavaria and Austria; or they may fizzle out like a wet cannon-cracker...
...last vision of victory was fading, and in the German mind sounded the brassy strains of a Götterdämmerung, the twilight of a nation...
...linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving nightmare of the Nazi Götterdämmerung, Goerdeler's disappearance could just as well be a cryptic Nazi dodge to serve some cryptic Nazi purpose...
...before this scheme goes into operation, every German soldier must fight to the bitter end. Count Anton added. The Götterdämmerung, which Hitler hopes will be a brief one, should not begin too soon...