Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German broadcast quoted Field Marshal Walter Model, commanding the Warsaw sector: "After weeks of receding, the time has come to stick to our positions. New forces from the Reich are arriving. "By Moscow account, the Germans had thrown into the fight 16 divisions scraped up from western Poland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Norway...
...implacable lines set the tone for the bloody terror that still racked the Reich a fortnight after Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb under the Führer's table and blew the crisis between the Nazi Party and the Army officers wide open...
Promptly the Gestapo clapped a price of 1,000,000 marks on the head of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, longtime Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving...
...suggestion of Reich Marshal Goring, the Führer has entrusted to me the task of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort: . . . I promise the German people to leave nothing untried in order to make Germany in a few weeks fit for war in every way. . . . The Party will be the motor of the entire process of reorganization. It will serve with its usual energy in the task of freeing soldiers for the front and workers for the production of armaments. . . The whole State machinery, including the railroads, post office, institutions and enterprises, will be scrutinized . . . for the Wehrmacht...
Apocalypse-Hitler, Himmler, Goring and Goebbels-now openly ruling as a Quadrumvirate, had launched the Reich on a careening toboggan that could only end in crackup...