Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they came down, they shook the earth and the walls trembled. Along Unter den Linden fountains of flame exploded. The Hedwigsdom, Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral, collapsed. Up near the Brandenburg Gate and along the Wilhelmstrasse incendiaries sprinkled the governmental quarter, where the Foreign Office, the Reich President's palace and Hitler's huge Chancellery stand in a row. This was Berlin's heart and the administrative center of the Third Reich. Here the attackers' blockbuster bombs created havoc, and there were many Berliners who never saw daylight again...
...assured the German people that Adolf Hitler intends to strike again at the Russians this year. His armies in the north last week were acting as though they hoped only to find a line where they could stand and hold the Russians beyond the borders of the Greater Reich...
...jack-rabbity little mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler. Actually, he is smart. He has a kind of courage. He understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
...Swedes have taken our children [for shelter during the war] and the Germans have taken our women and our country." President Risto Ryti presumably was aware of this feeling. He was also aware that 75% of Finland's food imports last year came from Germany and that the Reich still has about 100,000 troops in his country. They stand between the Red Army and the rest of Scandinavia, including Norway's port of Narvik. Said Ryti this week, when he was sworn in as the first President to succeed himself: "Finland longs for peace but we cannot...
...Germans expended the absolute minimum on the conquered Ukrainians, extracted the utmost. For Russian handicraft products the Germans exchanged useless junk imported from the Reich. German firms opened offices in the large cities, blanketed the countryside with traveling salesmen. Solely to survive, some Ukrainians cooperated with the Nazis who had come to organize "free trade." Rather than starve, Russian bootblacks served German soldiers at street-corner stands. Other Russians opened photographic studios, candy shops, cafes. But even Berlin newspapers have admitted that the spirit of subservience to the Germans is rare in the Ukraine...