Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, with Germany seething with rumors of unrest, there was still bigger news. All German home affairs were placed under Gestapo rule as Heinrich Himmler, dread head of the Nazi secret service, was named Minister of the Interior and "Chief of the Reich Administration...
...Combination of Forces. In this new kind of air war, U.S. Fortresses fly-as they did last week-500 miles into Germany to hit Nazi factories at Schweinfurt -(producer of more than half the Reich's supply of roller bearings). At the same time, other Fortress forces-as they did last week-fight their way 600 miles into Germany to hit Regensburg on the Danube (Messerschmitt-101 fighters), turning south later to cross the Alps and the Mediterranean and land at North African bases. At the same time, U.S. medium bombers and fighters stage widespread diversionary raids on Nazi...
Died. Colonel General Hans Jeschonnek, 44, since 1939 chief of staff of the German air forces; "of a serious illness"; at Reich Marshal Hermann Göring's headquarters. A World War I lieutenant at 15, one of Corporal Hitler's youngest generals, he planned the Luftwaffe's Polish knockout...
...have forced a dose of political castor oil down the throats of Holland's Nazi overlords. Furious because the doctors refused to join a Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians, the Nazis threatened them with penalties. Thereupon 6,200 Dutch doctors shut their offices, went on strike. They told Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyss-Inquart that they would have no part of a medical society that sponsored "deportation of the insane and sick persons and the sterilization of healthy people...
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, who today is one of the world's most hardheaded statesmen, was born in 1876 -five years after Bismarck founded the Second Reich; six years after Italy achieved unification by Vittorio Emanuele II's seizing Rome from the Papacy, and Pope Pius IX immured himself in his last possession as "the prisoner of the Vatican"; five years after the Paris proletariat bloodily introduced Europe to a new form of the state-the commune or soviet. The consequences of these events were to mark the highlights of the career of Eugenio Pacelli...