Complex sentence: Time/Life book "The Third Reich-The SS" Climaxing the year in Himmler's scheme was the Winter Solstice, or Yuletide, an event that brought SS folk together at candlelit banquet tables and around raging bonfires that harked back to German tribal rites.
Split into simpler sentences: Time/Life book "The Third Reich-The SS" The Winter Solstice, or Yuletide, was the climax of the year. It brought SS folk together at candlelit banquet tables and around raging bonfires that harked back to German tribal rites.