Hour of the Wolf
Today is Schicksalstag, the “day of fate” in German history.
This entry’s time slot, 3:00 AM ET– which some say is the beginning of “the hour of the wolf*”– was reserved earlier for some entry appropriate to the day. (Actual time of this entry: about 12:48 PM ET).
| Markus Wolf, East German Spymaster, Dies at 83 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006 Filed at 11:16 a.m. ET BERLIN (AP) — Markus Wolf, the ”man without a face” who outwitted the West as communist East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, died Thursday [Nov. 9, 2006]. He was 83. Wolf died in his apartment in Berlin, his stepdaughter Claudia Wall said in a statement. The cause of his death, on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, was not released. |
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* “Wolf” — See the etymological notes
in The Shining of May 29.