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...never read) Nietzsche's The Case of Wagner: "One pays dearly for having been a follower of Wagner. . . . Wagner's stage requires but one thing: Germans! .. [and] Germans themselves have no future." Nor did Hitler look deeply into the final cataclysmic scene of his beloved Götterdämmerung, for which Wagner himself had written the program note: "The will that wanted to shape an entire world according to its wish can finally attain nothing more satisfactory than . . . annihilation...
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...
Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...
...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...