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Poglavnik
mote
preternatural
hip roof
transom.
putto
Shtokavian
muezzin
Platon Jovanović
Then again, I just don’t like priests very much. Most of them are fanatics for a different, less worldly deity than Adolf Hitler but they are fanatics nonetheless.
caryatids,
Gordian knot
Jasenovac,
palisade
Émile Zola.
scrofulous
set about cleaning Christ on the cross with a long feather duster. He didn’t bat an eyelid. I expect it made a welcome change from a Roman spear in his side.
One day in the future the dead would speak from the past about what was being done here in the present.
‘There’s no doubt that some terrible things are being done in this war, on both sides.
Salome
On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.
For a moment I wondered what Goebbels’s several children would think about their father’s crimes when, one day, the Nazis were history.
Kesselring
Steengracht von Moyland.
Freisler
Max Sievers.’
Berlin West
‘The château of Wolfsberg
Baur au Lac
Allen Dulles.
babka,
bialy
Manfred Buch.
Jakob Werlin,
Schwiebus,
satrap’s
diadem
Fritz Todt
Mannerheim,
Alemannic
Leipzig’s Volki monument,
La Bohème,
The Three Toledos
Prantl,
Darlan.’
‘Walter Nölle,’
Weber’s The Marksman.