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...from the Siegfriedian fastnesses of the Rhineland, a German officer wrote to his wife: "A storm is shaking the German tree and all the weak leaves are falling. . . . But . . . look every day at our picture by Dürer of Ritter, Tod und Teufel ["The Knight, Death and the Devil"-see cut]. . . . Go fearlessly along that small bit of road which still separates us from finality...
That was last December. Last week, in her second big Met role (Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde), Thebom did it again. The sustained critical cheers confirmed her triumph: not only had she successfully made the rare and perilous jump from a Baptist church choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan's stage, but she could plan to stay a while...
...newspaper Front und Heimat: "Everything is at stake. Our position is serious. The armed mass which advances from the east is reaching out for our sacred soil. . . . Every man who can carry a gun must take to arms...
...floor of the cellar smoking for half an hour. Then the soldier with the bandaged head appeared, all grins, and announced in pidgin language: "Engländer und Amerikaner good, aber Partisanen kaputt"-indicating that only the Yugoslavs would be executed. At about 9 a.m. we were marched off to a cemetery where the Germans had established their headquarters. The whole town was in German hands by now, but the firing was heavier at the foot of the hills around the town. We stood for a while, watching the bandaging of the first German wounded. Suddenly I saw a Chetnik...
Over the Swiss grapevine from Germany, the Zurich weekly Sie und Er heard some current gossip about the Führer...