Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like. They worship Hitler in a mystical sort of way. They love Göring and call him "wiser Hermann." "Our Hermann." To the German people Göring is the embodiment of the satiation of all their own more normal appetites. They love sport. Göring is Reich's Master of the Hunt, lives in the middle of a 100,000-acre game preserve, imports falcons from Iceland to pursue that medieval sport. He plays tennis in the garden behind his palace in Berlin, wearing a hairnet to keep his long reddish hair from falling away from...
...Ministry, to eat, to drink and possibly to talk war. In spite of many other posts he holds, the Air Ministry is closest to Göring's heart. He is not only Minister for Aviation but also Supreme Commander of the Air Force of the Reich. He deserves his titles. He built the German Air Force from nothing to supremacy in Europe in two short years. The world knows how he did it under the cover of: 1) an Air Sports League commanded by his old friend Bruno Loerzer; 2) a German Air Defense League under the presidency...
...people would be willing to underwrite. As Mr. Welles prepared to sail for home. Rome reported that he carried a Hitler eleven-point peace proposal. The points: 1) general disarmament; 2) formation of a small, independent Poland; 3) Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians to be allied to the Reich; 4) Austria forever in the Reich; 5) return of German colonies within 25 years; 6) formation of a Danubian Federation bossed by Germany and Italy; 7) guarantee of the Balkan status quo; 8) Germany's remaining Jews to migrate; 9) no trade barriers; 10) free passage of the Suez beginning...
...Britain is prepared to supply Italy with British coal instead of German, and Italy must somehow get foreign coal if her industry is not to stop. Normally she imports four-fifths of her coal. German coal could be routed via Switzerland to Italy by rail, but the hard-pressed Reich cannot spare enough rolling stock for that. Last week Dictator Mussolini began warming up again the stale Rome-Berlin Axis...
...such thing as news, as U. S. editors understand it. Informed the German people might be, but what they swallowed was a carefully winnowed, ground, boiled, predigested gruel, designed to nourish but not invigorate their minds. The Nazi press was free from "foreign lies," free to support the Reich's worldwide program of expansion-but not free to publish what it pleased...