Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis, it was too easy. They dispensed with the usual excuses, and announced to the occupied Grand Duchy of Luxembourg that it was the first country to be honored with annexation to the Third Reich since the shooting started. Incidentally, they said, Luxembourg men would be drafted into the German Army...
...German Gauleiter, Gustav Simon, was quick to discipline the new citizens of the Reich. He declared a state of civil emergency, established military courts with powers to sentence strikers to immediate death. Luxembourgers should remember, he intimated, that workers in the New Order do not strike...
...German-speaking listeners Philadelphia's station WTEL brought news this week: U.S. technical research, declared WTEL in impeccable German, is superior to the Reich's, will help win the war. The speaker was Biochemist Dr. Otto Meyerhof, refugee Nobel Prizewinner (1922). He was only one of numerous authorities on a new program now telling Philadelphia's 200,000 German-Americans why the Nazis are not invincible...
...with 200-300 planes in what the conservative British Air Ministry called a raid "of outstanding success." Another night the heavy bombers swung farther east to Karlsruhe, on the upper Rhine, unloaded 200 or more bomb bays 450 miles from home, on one of the Reich's great locomotive-building centers. Still another night, Bremen, one of the targets of the three 1,000-plane raids of early summer, caught it hot & heavy...
Early one morning three years ago this week the curtains of Adolf Hitler's study in Berlin's huge Reich Chancellery stirred gently in the breeze. Inside, after seven nearly sleepless days of conferences and feverish meditation, the demoniac leader of Germany had reached his decision. A few minutes later, and hundreds of miles away, a German bomber snarled through the grey, drizzling Polish dawn and dropped a missile on the fishing village and air base of Puck. World War II had begun...