Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet deep. The Americans went down, opened a few bundles of currency, looked into wooden cases that covered paintings and statues. On many cases they noted significant stencilings: Paris, Brussels, Vienna. But Curator Rave insisted that these were not stolen treasures-this store of art belonged to the Reich, had been removed from Berlin "because the Russians were pushing too close...
Much of Hitler's Reich lay prostrate, exposed for all the world to see. The stabbing steel columns that lanced at military vitals had ripped away the barriers of Nazi secrecy...
...last week some 18,000 square miles of the Fatherland's "sacred soil" east of the Rhine had passed from German sovereignty for the first time in more than a century. Over a score of great cities flew Allied flags-and the little white flags of the conquered Reich...
Death rattled in the throat of the Nazi Reich. And as the Caliban State, which Hitler had prophesied would last a thousand years, threshed and trembled in its last agonies, 80,000,000 Germans were cast into chaos...
...Whether or not there were to be heroics on high, it was clear that there was to be Naziism underground. Allied officials said they had solid evidence of a Nazi plan to carry on from secret arsenals and secret cells until the Allied coalition split and a new, triumphant Reich could arise. Other sources added details...