Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First-Voter: Albert Einstein of Princeton, former citizen of the Reich, citizen of the U. S. for five weeks...
...pathetic 19-year-old youth, whose name is inscribed at the top of a dark page of German history, entered the Reich last week handcuffed to a Gestapo agent and guarded by another. He was Herschel Grynszpan, whose shot in Paris in 1938 set off the greatest Nazi pogrom. Released from the Paris Santé Prison when that capital fell, he reportedly joined the refugee stream, surrendered at Toulon, where he was later sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by a French court "under German supervision." In Berlin he will face the notorious Volksgericht, which keeps two headsmen busy...
...heat on Yugoslavia began with the customary demands: 1) concentration on agriculture for the benefit of a hungry-Reich at the expense of industrial development; 2) preferential rights to Germany on all surpluses. Incidental demands included a 20% increase in the official exchange value of the reichmark in terms of dinars, added quotas of corn, copper and lead to replace the wheat Yugoslavia cannot deliver because of a disastrous harvest, and 600,000 tons of iron ore a year to bring the German supply up to the pre-air-raid level. Promised reward: an economic role in the New Order...
...announced strength of ten divisions (about 150,000). Three hundred tanks had arrived in the frontier zone opposite Soviet Bessarabia, and at Galati near the mouth of the Danube German naval experts were reported supervising the construction of a submarine base for underwater craft to be shipped from the Reich in sections.* To accommodate the Nazi influx, 120 trains were removed from passenger service on Rumanian railroad lines...
...British war equipment, sent to strengthen weak-chinned King Carol as an ally, will be shipped to Germany. Sharing the honor of Axis membership, Rumanians were also asked to share its fasting-three meatless meals weekly and practically no butter as large quantities were consigned to the butter-starved Reich. Germans guarding the Ploesti oil field saw three wells burn, firmly declared the fires were accidental, not sabotage...