Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bewildered people of Germany knew what had happened; so did the five-million-odd foreign workers in the Reich. Stockholm reported that in Berlin 10,000 Italians went on strike, demanding to be sent back to Italy immediately, and that demonstrators sang the International, made bonfires of portraits of Hitler, Nazi Party membership cards and insignia. Leaflets were circulated: "Germans, what the Italians can do we can do. . . . Only the Nazis stand in the way of that peace for which we all long. Down with Hitler, Goebbels and Göring." In most cases the police avoided open conflict with...
Like a dank whiff from a tomb, the news from Italy flowed over the Alps and oozed across the Reich. People high and low glanced at one another, calculating...
...motive was plain: able-bodied Frenchmen in the Reich (1,250,000 war prisoners plus 1,150,000 Nazi-drafted laborers) will not only toil for the New Order but they will be less likely to join the Allied army of liberation when the day of deliverance comes...
...beginning Pierre Laval promised 250,000 French workers to Germany. Reich Manpower Commissioner Fritz Sauckel demanded more. Laval's police and German troopers have raided factories, cafes, theaters and other places for able-bodied men, then herded them into freight cars for shipment abroad. Last week Laval took the most extreme step yet: he drafted 21-year-old Frenchmen working on Nazi fortifications in France for jobs inside Germany...
Noting that "a beginning has been made" in enforcing the law, the churchmen called upon the Reich Commissioner to revoke the order. Cried they: "Sterilization constituted a profanation of divine command and human right. It is the final consequence of an anti-Christian and destructive racial doctrine, the manifestation of a presumptive self-aggrandizement and a life philosophy that threatens to undermine and frustrate all truly Christian and humane existence...