Word: putsch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flow of rich personal melodrama. Early on, the reader meets the "idling student, promenading in Linz with his cane and kid gloves," and the proud, self-pitying, angry young would-be artist in Vienna, suing his dealer over an imagined embezzlement. After the abortive beer-hall putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich chancellorship a decade later, he posed as the "lonely wanderer out of nothingness" who had come to power. Finally there was the "imitation Wagnerian end" in a bunker in burning Berlin...
...generation in England; he believed that 1917 had ended, not begun, the pattern of world wars. The Bavarian relatives whom Augustine visited for a while reflected the social and psychological disarray of Germany in the early 1920s. The concluding set piece of Hitler's abortive 1923 beer-hall putsch in Munich suggested the tidal pull of events in which all the characters were destined to be caught...
...beginning of the last ruinous year of the war. Himmler, who had read various horoscopes that Wulff had prepared for his aides, asked: "What do you think we should do?" Wulff insists that he replied by urging Himmler to stage a putsch, overthrow Hitler and then negotiate a peace: "Your constellations are favorable and Hitler's are bad." Himmler, lacking Wulffs confidence in the stars, equivocated...
...about the myth of Hitler. It has saturated our culture. Our stock image of murderous power is not Stalin quietly chewing a pipe, but Hitler noisily chewing a carpet. The details slip; not so many people nowadays know or care who Baldur von Schirach was or what the Roehm putsch signified. But the broad trajectory of Hitler's career, let alone its grisly climax in the bunker, is still as familiar and very nearly as mythic to Westerners as the deeds of Antichrist were to men in the Middle Ages...
Wild Bunch. Peckinpah's most influential film, and one of his best. Based on the exploits of the Hole in the Wall gang, it tells the story of the fading bandits last big putsch with unrestrained lyricism and biting ironies...