Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe. "The whole of continental Europe would be a corporate State under the Reich. . . . The United Kingdom would remain the heart of the British Empire, but it may be considered necessary by Empire people gradually to transfer various phases of authority to Canada as a more secure and aloof base." In other words, the British Isles would become a colony lying athwart Hitler's Europe...
...most colonial experts outside Germany, the Nazis' colonial drum used to sound pretty limp from banging, was not a very compelling instrument. Even Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf loudly disclaimed colonial ambitions, insisted rather on the European expansion of the Reich. He knew perfectly well, for instance, that all the African colonies which the Allies took from Germany after World War I had cost Germany far more than they were worth, had accounted for only one two-hundredth of Germany's trade, had attracted less than 20,000 German colonizers...
...Nazi National Popular Assembly stayed in the new French capital breathing dire but incoherent threats until they were bounced out by the Garde Mobile. Since France already is so completely under Germany's thumb that an estimated 90% of her industrial production goes to the Third Reich, "collaboration" could mean only one thing-acquiescence to the passage of German troops to Spain and Africa, permitting Germany to use France's African colonies as military bases for a western Mediterranean campaign...
What the Nazis planned for the stubborn Serbs they did not disclose. But whether there would be a puppet state or a new province of the Reich, it was certain that Germany's hand would be heavy upon them because: 1) the Germans blame the Serbs for Yugoslav resistance; 2) Germany needs Serbia's copper and foodstuffs. They would probably not get much food from Serbia this year, thanks to war damage and the dislocation of agriculture which the German push has caused in all Balkan countries...
...masses of the people." These words describing the German populace were spoken last week by thin-lipped Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...