Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, moving into Strasbourg with a crew of experienced pacifiers, he immediately set the machinery of re-Germanization in motion. German became the official language, German postage stamps were introduced, a customs union with the Reich was established, the picturesque Esplanade in Metz became Platz des Führers, Mulhouse's Neuquartierplatz became Reichsmarschal Göring-Platz, posters went up depicting a gentle Nazi caressing a forsaken Alsatian child...
...where a section of the famed Ringstrasse was last week renamed "Josef Bürckel Ring," Hitler selected a particularly luscious cherry from his political pie-poetic, youth-loving Baldur von Schirach, who last September publicly begged his Führer's permission to leave his job as Reich Youth Leader to help blitzkrieg France, returned last month with an Iron Cross and lieutenancy...
...French capitulation has closed an epoch of history and they ask themselves anxiously, 'is the battle now between Hitler's New European Order and the Old British Empire?' Or is it, as they desire but hardly dare to hope, between the lords of the Third Reich and the protagonists of European revolution? On the answer to that question hangs the issue of the war and the fate of these islands...
According to Correspondent von Wiegand, Marshal of the Reich Göring was not only surprised but irritated that the U. S. should have the slightest anxiety about Germany. Said the Marshal...
...America (which has mainly agricultural products to sell) to provide her with the money to buy the products of U. S. industry. But Germany (and all Europe), which needs food and raw materials, could pay for them with the industrial products South America lacks. Most disquieting thing about the Reich Minister's argument was that he was obviously telling the truth-not only about Germany's intentions but about the economic situation in which the U. S. finds itself...