Word: reich
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Hitler, by some reports, spent the week before the invasion confined to the Reich Chancellery, the opulent quarter-mile edifice he had built to symbolize Germany's might. During that time, he subsisted on a spartan diet of vegetables, buttered bread and his custom-brewed 1%-alcohol beer. He slept little, usually going to bed at sunrise...
...atrocities of the Third Reich and the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in World War II have been extensively archived in survivors' accounts, scholarly histories and documentary films. Yet the gruesome orgy of self-vivisection carried out in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978 left behind far fewer records. History in Cambodia remains intertwined with legend, as it has since the classical era of Angkor, and the regime's reign of terror was hideously efficient, leaving very few survivors to give witness to the inner workings of the machinery of death...
...telling that while bombed-out German cities serve as the backdrop to many of the films, the Third Reich is seldom their subject. It is disturbing—if not offensive—that while the Nazis and war are occasionally referenced, the persecution of Jews is never addressed...
...Michael Reich, director of the School of Public Health center, praised the First Lady as an “eloquent, passionate, and honest” advocate for her country before the fifty or so assembled graduate students and professors...
...father as a member of the foundation and begins a weekly hour-long search for infinite truth. His journey takes him to the furthest reaches of the globe, bringing him into conflict with such formidable adversaries as a neo-Nazi organization that is planning the rise of the Fourth Reich. Quite frankly, FM is unimpressed. After careful consideration, however, it appears that certain parallels do exist between fact and fiction...