Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reich Food Administration spokesman explained his problem: ". . . loss of the agricultural district in the east is a difficulty. . . . Our supply organization is now sharply strained . . . strictest rationing and best organization are necessary for us to get through these twelve months [of 1944]. The millions of foreign workers we must feed make, so to speak, a thirteenth month...
Next day, in a barren cell under the Washington courtroom where he is on trial for sedition, Naziphile George Sylvester Viereck Sr., already serving a one-to-five-year prison term as an unregistered agent of the Reich, listened stolidly as his wife broke the news to him. The Vierecks' other son, Sergeant Peter Viereck, author of a critical book on the origins of National Socialism, is now in North Africa...
...Dreadful Silence. But it would be broken again & again. Bombers were over the Münster-TAKE COVER . . . bombers were crossing the Reich frontier . . . enemy planes approaching at low altitude-beware of machine-gun attacks. In areas where the bombers were striking, radio stations would go off the air and there would be silence-dreadful silence...
...struck close to Hans Hube. His son had been killed on the Eastern front; his daughter had died in an air raid on Berlin. He himself, the Reich's famed one-armed tank general, had barely managed to slip out of the Russians' reach on the hostile Ukrainian steppe...
Many more, disposed along northwest Europe's splendid network of highways and strategic railroads would be shot into action as the battle developed into a full-out push at the heart of the Reich. If the invasion was to be stopped, Rommel and Rundstedt would have to make a quick, accurate diagnosis of Eisenhower's intentions, then commit their forces without delay in a great gamble for victory...