Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied successes in North Africa gave them ideas. The Magyars went to work. Last week they ordered 20,000 Hungarian workers home from Germany by year's end. Berlin, angry, warned that the departing Hungarians could take no money out of the Reich. But the German mark no longer meant as much as it had in months past...
...music. As World War II approached, many of the league's European members wavered between exile and totalitarianism. Spain's famed Manuel de Falla (The Three-Cornered Hat) signed with Dictator Franco. Parisian Composers Arthur Honegger and Florent Schmitt toured Germany as honored guests of the Third Reich. Italian Modernist G. Francesco Malipiero began writing Fascist anthems for Mussolini. Unable to cope with political wanderings, in 1939 the embarrassed league restricted its composer membership to U.S. citizens...
...Germany," said Mussolini, "will give powerful assistance in the form of antiaircraft artillery to insure Italian defenses." He did not mention an estimated 250,000 German troops now in Italy to resist invasion-or to shoot Italians who do not fight. The arrival of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants...
...first death sentences for military espionage in Swiss history-despite dire warnings from the Swiss Nazi Die Front that "first shots can be dangerous." In Zurich, filmgoers stood and applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature of President Roosevelt. The Volksrecht answered Nazi Press Chief Dietrich's charge that Switzerland was giving up "spiritual neutrality": "We reject spiritual eunuchry. Away with mental castration which goes by the name of spiritual neutrality! Statesmen of great powers should have learned...
Victim. The Pétain regime allowed French industry, wealth and manpower to be siphoned into the Third Reich. History will decide whether Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain aided Hitler deliberately or not. Last week the question, like his regime, seemed unimportant...