Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Profanely ironic is the choice of Bishop Friedrich Franz Ernest von Bodelschwingh for the Nazi-perverted steal of TIME'S Niemöller cover. Called the "poor man's bishop," gentle, patriarchal, immensely popular Bishop von Bodelschwingh defied Hitler in June 1933, resigned as Reich Bishop of the German Evangelical Church one month after taking office. Refusing high office in the church's home missions, he helped organize (with Niemöller) the militant anti-Nazi Pastors' Emergency Federation...
Just as Franklin Roosevelt had taken his sons Elliott and Franklin Jr. to his meeting, so Benito took his son Vittorio-the aviator who five years ago loved to watch the floral explosion of bombs among the Ethiopians. Reich Marshal Hermann Göring thoughtfully presented Benito with an album of photographs which his second son Bruno, who died in a crash last month, had taken while visiting Germany's Atlantic air bases...
Last week Germany began to hint at what it would do with Russia once the Bear was in the bag. The weekly Reich suggested that there would be a "healthy mixture" of individual and collective farming. It could be gathered from Reich's discussion that the Russian peasants would be loudly assured that some day they might again rule their own roosts. Possibly the little vegetable patches and few animals that Stalin has allowed Russia's collective farmers to cultivate privately-sometimes life-savers-would be somewhat increased under Hitler. But almost certainly Germany would stick to basic...
...hard at work on "the largest naval bases ever built." Whether or not they were the largest ever, it seemed likely that the new French bases would be pretty good. They were the latest effort of the Nazis' Busiest Beaver, Dr. Fritz Todt,* and last week the Third Reich characteristically rewarded him-by giving him another huge...
...Todt was given the rank of Major General and set to building the Siegfried Line. He commuted to Berlin for a personal job for his boss, building in short order the new Reich Chancellery. He is also supposed to have constructed the Führer's retreat at Berchtesgaden...