Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quench the growing demand for reprisals against Germany in kind, the British Air Ministry announced that although it had confined its bombing to military objectives, many bombed factories were in densely populated districts where German civilians had inevitably been casualties, that according to "unimpeachable stories smuggled out of the Reich," 1,000 had been killed and 7,000 injured by R.A.F. raids on the city of Bremen alone, that in Berlin many had perished due to the collapse of cellars used as air-raid shelters...
...capitalism, but its controls are in Party hands. Salesmen of National Socialism claim that this system unifies the nation, puts an end to internal social war. But capitalism dies hard. Last week it regained limited control of the German coal industry, gave evidence that even in the socialized, militarized Reich, a social struggle still goes...
When World War II began, management of the German coal industry was given to big, blond, blue-eyed Paul Walter, onetime lieutenant of Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley. With the title of the Reich's Coal Kommissar, Herr Walter descended on the producers and retailers, organized them into State-operated syndicates, controlled coal from the mine to the consumer. It was not a successful arrangement. Producers resented State intrusion, labor kicked, consumers got more red tape than coal. Last winter while Berliners were shivering in their apartments, coal was sprinkled on the streets of other cities to prevent...
...friend at court, Goring Aide Dr. Helmuth Christian Wohlthat, they convinced the marshal that private industry, if given a free hand, could do the job. Last week Herr Goring gave them their chance, announced the resignation of Kommissar Walter. To replace the State syndicates, the producers formed the Reich Coal Association, modeled it along cartel lines, chose as its head Paul Pleiger, a businessman who is also general manager of the Hermann Goring Works. His first move was to create "coal shock reserves" strategically scattered throughout the Greater Reich, and intended to prevent shortages in case of "railroad congestion...
...Everywhere Colonel Donovan went he asked the same questions. Q. If Germany wins, what kind of Europe will come out of the war? A. A Europe dominated by Germany, with industry centred in the Reich. Q. What will this mean to the U. S.? A. Increasing economic pressure, probably including the establishment of economic bastions around...