A hybrid eclipse occurs when a Solar eclipse is seen as Total and Annular at the same time.

And if they are, I can imagine them as we are, calculating, writing computer code, building instruments, trying to detect that faintest sound of their origins and wondering who else is out there.

The Nazis must have reveled in the knowledge that their virulent anti Semitism found an echo sometimes not so faint in the rest of Europe. They also came to realize that if expulsion was not possible, extermination eventually would be.