Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here the German Government was believed to have notified the Swedish Government that the Reich could never permit British and French troops in Northern Europe. Meanwhile, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, Chief of all Nazi Armies, pointedly visited Danzig and Gotenhafen, on the southern Baltic, to inspect "military reconstruction work." No passage, said the Swedish Foreign Office...
...latter should now be clear enough for him and everybody else. In his last speech, Adolf Hitler described the present war as a social conflict between predatory, hypocritical plutocracies and great, proletarian States like Germany. Last week the Nazi hierarchy was busily ding-donging the theorem that the Third Reich is fighting the classes for the masses, canceled Herr Thyssen's citizenship...
Five million Frenchmen are now in uniform. Although Germany has some 6,000,000 men under arms, the Reich is almost twice as populous as France, has nothing like the same man power shortage on the home front. Thus there has been for millions of Frenchwomen no question of seeking war work. It has been inescapably bequeathed them by their...
Queasiest of Europe's quaking neutrals last week were the Swiss. In their two largest cities, Basle and Zurich, both within easy striking distance of the Reich, ominous instructions from the Swiss General Staff were distributed from house to house. These ordered the two cantons' 864,000 citizens to get ready to flee to the countryside in case Switzerland is attacked, warned them to hold themselves in permanent readiness for an evacuation call which may come at any moment...
...methodically looted the land of grain, foodstuffs, cattle, butter, swine, horses. Jewish and Polish property has been confiscated indiscriminately. Vast concentration camps have been set up and at least 300,000 young Poles, many of them former soldiers in the Polish Army, have been conscripted for labor in the Reich. Jews have been forced to wear identifying clothing (generally yellow arm bands), are largely confined to ghettos. Thousands of Jews, not only from former Polish provinces but also from Bohemia, Germany, Austria, have been dumped unceremoniously, with little food, clothing or money, into a small, not yet defined enclave around...