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Night of broken glass, send the Jews to Dachau death camp On a path to certain death The "anschluss" completed On the brink of war Act brutal with no pity Be harsh, show no remorse Start the warmachine The Reich will rise In the last days of peace
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Night of broken glass, send the Jews to Dachau death camp On a path to certain death The "anschluss" completed On the brink of war Act brutal with no pity Be harsh, show no remorse Start the warmachine The Reich will rise In the last days of peace Europe holding it's breath An invasion is coming but when will it start?
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Night of broken glass, send the Jews to Dachau death camp On a path to certain death The "anschluss" completed On the brink of war Act brutal with no pity Be harsh, show no remorse Start the warmachine The Reich will rise In the last days of peace Europe holding it's breath An invasion is coming but when will it start?
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I believe, as do others watching the process unfold, that the KMT and CCP want the anschluss to take place by 2011, the 100th anniversary of the ROC, especially since Hu Jintao steps down in 2012.
Richard Bush asks what the continued military build up means Michael Turton 2009
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As I've noted in the past, the anschluss with China cannot go forward without significant damage to Taiwan's democracy, since nobody here wants to be part of the PRC.
Archive 2009-05-01 Michael Turton 2009
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In 1938, after the anschluss, she left Vienna for England together with her husband, Paul Mahler, a Jewish chemist whom she had married two years previously.
Margaret Mahler. 2009
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That would have marked the anschluss of a life of depression and solitude had he done that.
Has technology extinguished both true solitude and real social life? Ann Althouse 2009
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Was down in Tainan yesterday and met a lot of friends, all of whom see the same thing: the anschluss is coming in 2011.
Archive 2009-05-01 Michael Turton 2009
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As I've noted in the past, the anschluss with China cannot go forward without significant damage to Taiwan's democracy, since nobody here wants to be part of the PRC.
Two by Adams Michael Turton 2009
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Was down in Tainan yesterday and met a lot of friends, all of whom see the same thing: the anschluss is coming in 2011.
Ma on Cross Strait Relations Michael Turton 2009
reesetee commented on the word anschluss
"(T)here is another, more subtle, linguistic trap which both Germans and non-Germans can easily fall into--and which is far worse a faux pas than a mere slip of the article. Mention that you've found the 'Endlösung' ('final solution') to a problem you've been grappling with, or that you've made a 'Selektion' ('selection') from a number of possible alternatives, and you will quickly find yourself the target of disapproving stares.
The reason is simple--the aforementioned words are so tainted by their use by the Nazis that they are now completely taboo. To modern German ears, 'Endlösung' will forever be associated with Hitler's genocidal 'Final Solution to the Jewish Question,' while 'Selektion' is now verbum non grata due to its use to refer to the death camp practice of 'selecting' inmates to be executed.
-- "New Dictionary Highlights Nazi Words to Avoid," David Gordon Smith, Spiegel Online International (thanks to AWADmail 2/24/08)
February 25, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word anschluss
I've known about that linguistic phenomenon for many years (the example that was given to me was the verb "spritzen"), but I didn't know there would be a new dictionary about it. Wow!
But what about the word anschluss?
February 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word anschluss
Anschluss is among the words included in the dictionary. In fact, I was casting about for a place on Wordie to put this and settled on choosing from the other half of the article's two-part headline: "From 'Anschluss' to 'Zyklon B.'"
February 26, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word anschluss
But... but... what does it mean, in the context of being included in the special dictionary? Annexation?
February 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word anschluss
Oh! Sorry, I misunderstood. I'm no German expert by any means, but yes, I think it literally means "link-up," or annexation--which is what Germany did with Austria in 1938. It's usually called "the Anschluss," much as we say "the Holocaust" to refer to the Nazi extermination of Jews--at least in histories I've read.
February 26, 2008
john commented on the word anschluss
A chilling word. Reminds me of brennschluss, which Pynchon made chilling in a different way.
February 26, 2008
reesetee commented on the word anschluss
Good way to describe it. To my ear they always sound similar to onslaught, which is also an unnerving word.
February 26, 2008