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It was eerily silent in the milliseconds before the end of history. There was no loudspeaker countdown, no anticipatory crowd chatter, not even the rustle of wind through the trees lining the Papenburg proving grounds in north-western Germany. According to those who were there last autumn, the quiet slowly gave way to a hiss, which quickly became a howling Gorgon…