For the title of this book, author Stefan Engel employs an allegory from German mythology: in the gotterdammerung, the "e;twilight of the gods"e;, the end of the world engulfs the worn-out gods of an antiquated age, and out of the world conflagration grows an admirable new world of peace an full, joyous live. The parallel with the decline of the present ruling stratum of world society and the prep...