Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden is as near to Germany as New York is to Boston-or Chicago to Detroit-so it is small wonder that there are so many people in Stockholm with firsthand news from the Reich...
Money. Many Germans worry about inflation. Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk recently tried to reassure an assembly of big shots at the Reichsbank: Never mind the rising tide of bank notes; the money situation is under control. But many people are buying whatever fixed values they can put their hands on (favorite investment: rare stamps, because they can be easily hidden and transported...
...Poland. West Germans - Rhinelanders, Saarlanders, Westphalians of the Ruhr Valley - might clamor to be made independent, too. (At the end of World War I there was a brief Rhineland republic.) Bismarck's unifying labors in the 19th Century and recent Nazi pressure to eradicate old boundaries within the Reich may have gone so far that all dismemberment now would fail...
Already reports this week spoke of a wholesale, panicky flight of Germans and home-grown Nazis from the Baltic States to the Reich. Refugees clung to the roofs of overcrowded trains. In Riga, ships were packed with evacuees...
...this struggle there will be victory for Germany, and consequently for Europe, against the criminal attackers in the East and West, is not only an expression of the belief of every National Socialist, but an inner certainty. . . . The enemy's attempts to bring the German Reich to collapse by high explosives and incendiary bombs will only strengthen the German people's determination...