Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command are 30 to 40 infantry divisions (15,000 men each), which he has disposed along the beaches and in rear areas. Ten which have long battle experience are probably kept at vital communication points, to be whisked where they are needed. Far to his rear, in the Reich itself, are 50 to 55 more divisions, some still training, all relatively untested. They are reserves...
...born and raised. Facing him and others of his pattern-Junkers Bock, Leeb, Reichenau-the democratic world can be thankful that by now the mold is probably broken. It is unlikely that Adolf Hitler's politics-ridden machine can ever produce the kind of officer that the Reich, from Moltke to Kaiser Wilhelm, poured forth in dazzling profusion...
When Adolf Hitler was still a mousy plotter, Gerd von Rundstedt was already one of the Reich's first soldiers. Impersonally affable, yet detached and consciously superior, he was not a man to let other officers call him by his first name or use the familiar Du. He was known far & wide, and with vast respect, as der General...
...went back on the Russian front: he had Rundstedt's old southern sector, and this time knifed through and past Rostov. So did Leeb, in his old Leningrad sector. "Der General" went back to harness, too, and der Führer had honored him with one of the Reich's most important but least thankful commands. In France, at the first, it was quiet and there was much building to do. Now there are more invasion barges on the beaches, more gunfire in the night, and the skies are laced with the bright, fiery tracers of antiaircraft...
...Reich Marshal Hermann Göring's private railroad car, innumerable brushes with the obligingly obtuse Gestapo...