Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sven Malmberg is a Swedish orchestra leader. In the blacked-out cities of Germany he played forbidden jazz to nerve-racked citizens of the Third Reich, who wanted hot music to jar them out of their depression. To questioning police. Malmberg and his audience would explain it was Belgian music. Last month Malmberg was playing in Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told...
...flamed with anger at the latest Nazi measure against Holland's Jews; an order for sterilization of Jews who marry what Adolf Hitler calls Aryans. So did their churches. Last week Roman Catholic and Protestant church leaders drew up a stern joint protest, sent it to Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reich Commissioner for The Netherlands...
Technically, as the laymen understood it. the Church was above the war. The Vatican maintained ties with Germany, Italy and Japan. But its relations with the Nazi Reich had never been worse than they were this week. Its relations with the United Nations seemed never better. In the muffled, intense activity of Vatican diplomacy, Francis Spellman, the grocer's son who may wear the red hat, seemed to have a key role...
...three times before, go through the motions of presenting and accepting the annual report. He will have been authorized to do so by proxies of the bank's 17 directors, 13 of whom are controlled by the Axis powers, and one of whom is Walther Funk himself (Reich Minister of Economics...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...