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“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe ...
"First They Came" (German: Als sie kamen lit. ' When they came ' , or Habe ich geschwiegen lit. ' I did not speak out ' ), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
Through its title, "Ovid in the Third Reich" transposes the ancient Roman poet Ovid to Nazi Germany. [2] The poem is introduced with a Latin quotation from Ovid's Amores 3.14: "non peccat, quaecumque potest peccasse negare, / solaque famosam culpa professa facit" (transl. she who is able to deny having sinned does not sin, / only confessed guilt makes a woman renowned).
They adopted the term Drittes Reich ("Third Empire" – usually rendered in English in the partial translation "the Third Reich"), first used in a 1923 book entitled Das Dritte Reich by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, [7] that counted the medieval Holy Roman Empire (which nominally survived until the 19th century) as the first and the 1871–1918 ...
The second volume, The Third Reich in Power, was published by Penguin in the UK and the US in October 2005 (UK: ISBN 978-0-7139-9649-4, 960 pages; US: ISBN 978-1-59420-074-8, 960 pages). It describes how Hitler transformed Germany into a totalitarian dictatorship during the 1930s, picking up where the first volume left off, and ending with the ...
The term "Third Reich" was coined by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck in his 1923 book Das Dritte Reich.He defined the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) as the "First Reich", the German Empire (1871–1918) as the "Second Reich", while the "Third Reich" was a postulated ideal state including all German people, including Austria.
The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called The Sentinel.
The first paragraph of "Origin of terms" is copied nearly verbatim from the SparkNotes on this poem (see the second paragraph of the SparkNotes on line, accessed 2007-04-30). Should it be rephrased, deleted, or cited? -- DrGaellon (talk | contribs) 22:15, 1 May 2007 (UTC) If it is practically identical, then it deserves a citation.