Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...December, when Rundstedt broke through in the Ardennes, gloom lay heavy on the western Allies. Last week, as Joseph Stalin's armies thundered into the eastern Reich, the pendulum was swinging back to rosy optimism. Perhaps, once more, it was swinging...
Before then, of course, might come the internal convulsion that would wreck the Third Reich for good & all. There were few portents of any such convulsion last week. Germany's leaders still had two hopes: 1) a serious quarrel among the Allies; 2) deadly new V-weapons which Nazi scientists are struggling to bring into action...
...about half the distance from Warsaw to the defense line the Germans have built along their 1939 border. Konev's army was already on German soil in Silesia, was within 28 miles of Breslau and pressed close upon Oppeln, both on the Oder and key points in the Reich's second most important , coal and steel area. Crossings there would set up a flank for future development of a strike to the inner Reich...
...draft cards, $60,000 in U.S. currency, and a fistful of diamonds. In Manhattan they browsed in radio shops, openly buying parts for a radio transmitter. Also they sampled the city's night life-in less than four weeks they managed to spend $3,425 of the Third Reich's funds...
...present speaking less frequently, not because I do not want to speak . . . but because my work leaves little time for speeches. ... I have not been sleeping. ... I promise solemnly to the Almighty that the hour will strike when victory will come to the Greater German Reich...