Word: reich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idyl was interrupted for a while in 1944. At 53, ex-Soldier Dix was drafted into the Volkssturm for the last-ditch defense of the Reich. But his World War II service was brief and painless. "I was with my squad of ten other men near a little town on the Rhine. We were posted in a field. It was a warm spring afternoon. We all lay down in the grass and went to sleep The next thing we knew, there were some French African troops standing over us with machine guns in their hands. We just did what they...
...Otto Ernst Remer felt no shame about his work. Two years ago he began going from town to town under the auspices of the neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party, telling avid listeners the great saga of how he had served the Führer and confounded the traitors. He became a minor hero, and grew bolder and bolder until last May 3, in Brunswick, he shouted: "These conspirators of July 20 are to a great extent traitors to their country...
Then Bauer, rapping the table, poured out his summation: "The resistance fighters wanted only to save their country. The Third Reich was an illegal state, and every citizen had the right of self-defense against it. Hitler was the greatest of war criminals. There can be no treason against a war criminal...
School for Democracy The hatchet-faced little man known as Fritz Roessler disappeared in the rubble of the defeated Third Reich. A street corner no-good until he joined Hitler's brownshirts, he rose in Nazi favor by cultivating a Fuhrer mustache and showing a high talent for defiling Jewish graves. He became a captain in the German army, and Nazi propaganda boss in the state of Saxony...
Defeat into Victory. In World War II, allied bombs just about demolished the Ullstein block along the Kochstrasse, but printing presses in a skyscraper near the Tempelhof airport were little damaged. They continued to pour forth Goebbels' Das Reich and the screaming Der Angriff until the end. The Red army carted off two of the plant's finest presses, but when the U.S. took over the sector, the remaining presses still made it the biggest printing plant in Europe. It rolled out the U.S. Army's Allgemeine Zeitung and later five other West Berlin dailies...