Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protecting that key city and the northern approaches to Rostov. Of these objectives, the greatest gain for the Russians and the greatest loss to the Germans would be Kharkov, fulcrum of the entire Axis line lying between the Red armies in the south and the outer defenses of the Reich itself. Second in importance was Rostov-a vital gate to the Caucasus and the Crimea and a point which the Germans seized and lost once before...
...Naziism's tenth birthday, a day for celebration. In the Hall of Honor at Berlin's Air Ministry building, which had been decorated with flowers for the occasion, meaty, perspiring Reich Marshal Hermann Göring scowled at the pages of his carefully prepared speech. In the hall his comrades in arms stood waiting. Across the Reich, the silent people of Germany also waited. In a moment the Marshal would step to the microphone...
...year ago the famous anthropologist's plan for the creation of a new synthetic German race from foreign elements, to replace the natural inhabitants of the Reich whom he proposed to scatter after obliterating their state, was denounced by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, as untenable...
Death of a Republic. On the evening of Jan. 30, 1933, the boots of the brown-clad Storm Troops beat like thudding drums along the Wilhelmstrasse beneath a flaming canopy of torches. Leaning far out over the Reich's Chancellery balcony, Adolf Hitler, with sparkling eyes, watched them march past. Battalion after battalion swung by, bands crashing out the song Die Fahne Hoch. ... In a nearby window, a rocklike silhouette, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg gazed on the parade with age-dimmed eyes...
Jansen and Weyl, who have felt Naziism's heavy hand, forecast a reign of terror in the Reich before the Nazis' grip is loosed. This punishment, they believe, is inevitable and must be suffered. But they take issue with those who class all Germans as Nazi brutes whose record bars them forever from a place in future world affairs. They predict for Germany "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" which will be established by a democratic revolution. As Social Democrats and members of the Underground they speak...