Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Reich decided in the spring of 1941 to help Italy in the Balkans, this was done not to achieve personal aims but to assist an ally...
...member of the Axis, Italy was an economic liability to Germany, got more than she gave: coal, rolling stock, iron & steel products, machinery, machine tools. The prime Italian demand on the U.S. will be for coal (she has been receiving 1,000,000 tons a month from the western Reich and Silesia). The day after the surrender was announced, Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes revealed that the U.S. is already sending undisclosed amounts of coal to Italy. Only the future would reveal how much oil and gasoline the U.S. must now add to the total going abroad...
...compel us once and again to give up something on some front in this gigantic fateful struggle, and to avoid some particular threat, but it will never break the ring of steel that, forged by the homeland and maintained through the heroism of our front, protects the German Reich...
...Bulgaria was slated for a bigger role. Hungarian sources reported that Premier Filoff had hurried to a Berchtesgaden session with Adolf Hitler; he may also have seen his old acquaintance, Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. No one doubted that he would get Gestapo support to suppress Bulgaria's underground, anti-German, patriotic front. What the Führer needed above all was more manpower, more help from Bulgaria's Army to guard against a possible Turkish thrust and to stiffen Italian garrisons in Greece...
...September 1939, as the Panzers clawed across Poland, Adolf Hitler grandiloquized: "I now do not want to be anything but the first soldier of the German Reich. I, therefore, again put on the uniform which once had been most sacred and dearest to me. I will take it off only after victory." Over an unprepared, divided foe, victory that very month seemed near...