Schrecklichkeit
Americannoun
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The official German policy against civilians was described as Schrecklichkeit — frightfulness.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2023
But there was also little doubt that Hitler would go through with the invasion only if, after the Schrecklichkeit, he believed it had a 90% chance of success.
From Time Magazine Archive
The threat had no effect in the way of Schrecklichkeit, but rather it steeled us to a future which began to appear inevitable.
From Our Navy in the War by Lawrence Perry
There is much besides this to indicate that Carlyle’s praise of Germany in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is anything but evidence that he would endorse Kultur and Schrecklichkeit.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
That I should stop this Labyrinth of Light— Though stopping make the planet leaden-hearted— Unless you stopped the well-known Schrecklichkeit Your nation started.
From Something Else Again by Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce) Adams
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