"...did the nazi terror lose the war but, in the end, win the peace? This peace based on 'the balance of terror' not only between the East and the West but also between the forms and figures of an aesthetics of disappearance that would come to characterize the whole fin de siecle"

Paul Virilio, Art and Fear. Page 16

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