Placate

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–verb (used with object) 

to appease or pacify, esp. 

by 

concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry. 





　　

As if the filmmakers felt the need to placate modern viewers who might wonder why they should emotionally indulge Nazi authority figures, the opening is swathed in Stauffenberg's feelings about how Hitler and the SS are a "stain" on the German army and his coincidentally contemporary desire for a "change" in the country's leadership. 



Shortly after entering these sentiments into his diary while serving in Tunisia in 1943, Stauffenberg is badly injured and loses his right arm, the last two fingers of his left hand and his left eye; with a black eyepatch, he still looks quite dashing, even if executing a Nazi salute with a prosthetic arm might appear rather irreverent.





assuage

to assuage one's [grief] [hunger] [fears]

abate

to abate a [tax] 

to abate one's [enthusiasm]  

The [storm] has abated. 

The [pain] in his shoulder finally abated.  

mitigate

mollify, allay, appease

Seething with acidic ill will and [un]mitigated vitriol,

militate

have effect or influence

This criticism in no way militates [against] your going ahead with your research. 

slake

Haneke seemed to suggest that recent cinema has cheapened such [slaking] of emotion [into] a near-pornographic fake

slaked [lime] 



vindicate

exonerate 

execrate 

extenuate

to represent a fault as less serious

to extenuate a [crime]. 

Do not extenuate the [difficulties] we are in. 

remittance

His remittance [reached] us on Thursday.

remission

the act of remitting, pardon as of sins or offenses

The patient's [leukemia] was [in] remission.   

Life was a disease, and smoking held it temporarily in [remission]. 

Debilitate