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‖ nacht und nebel|naxt ʊnt ˈneːb(ə)l|
[G.]
The German for ‘night and fog’, used, freq. attrib., of a situation characterized by mystery or obscurity.
The name of an infamous decree issued by the Nazis in December 1941.
1947V. H. Bernstein Final Judgment xviii. 240 Nacht und Nebel was issued over Hitler's signature, but Keitel issued several covering memoranda and interpretations. Indeed, the name of the Chief of the High Command was so closely identified with the order that it was sometimes referred to as the ‘Keitel Decree’. 1963Times 21 Feb. 12/5 This was Tannhäuser as a would-be music drama, set in a Nacht und Nebel thirteenth-century Germany, peopled by symbols and based on the orchestra. 1968A. Marin Clash of Distant Thunder (1969) i. 5 The transport camp..where captured commandos and Nacht und Nebel prisoners were isolated. 1971D. Cory Sunburst vi. 100 Country after country going under, disappearing in the mist of Nacht und Nebel. 1973Listener 26 July 123/1 The indescribable verbal miasma, exhalations of Nacht und Nebel, that is Scientology's contribution to the encyclopaedia of religious knowledge. |