Word: reich
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...Restitution of property losses to Jews still left in West Germany (22,000 out of a prewar Reich total of 550,000) has been going on since 1947. In the U.S. and French zones, about half of the claims are settled; in the British zone the percentage of settlement is much lower...
...Nationalism" is an equally irrelevant term. Since their destruction and partition in 1945, the "Reich" and the "nation" have simply not been realities to the Germans. The very meager successes of the noisy "nationalist" parties signify more protest against existing economic inadequacies than passion for a political ideal...
Died. Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst von Hohenzollern, 69, eldest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; of a heart ailment; in Hechingen, southwest Germany. During World War I, as commander of the Reich's Fifth Army, he took a decisive beating from Marshal Pétain at Verdun, fled to ignominious exile in Holland. In 1923, he returned to Germany, hoping to succeed his deposed father, instead bowed to Hitler, joined the Nazis. Near the end of World War II, the French found Wilhelm hiding in Austria...
...Campaign rallies of Germany's Socialist Reich Party, whose leader was later jailed, were...
With remarkable speed, the Bonn government cracked down on the Neo-Nazi Socialist Reich Party (TIME, May 21). A West German court last week found its führer, rabble-rousing Otto Ernst Remer, guilty of slander; during last winter's election campaign, Remer had accused Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's administration of subservience to the Western democracies ("Adenauer [is] nothing but a receiving station for allied orders"). Sentence: four months in jail...