Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sides," it read, "unanimously expressed the conviction that the aim must be to assure calm, order and peace in this part of Central Europe. The Czechoslovak State President . . . trustfully laid the fate of the Czech people and country into the hands of the Führer of the German Reich...
...since London refuses to recognize the new status of Czecho-Slovakia it cannot now be redeemed by the Germans. Not much more than 60% of the foreign exchange and as sets can be liquidated and returned to Germany. The chances are that from gold and foreign exchange the Reich will be able to realize not more than $200,000,000, or about enough to smooth out things for the Nazis for another six months. Even Austria yielded more money...
...that Czecho-Slovakian economy rested on its ability to import raw materials and export the finished product. Now that it is brought inside the closed Nazi economy of warfare, Czecho-Slovakia can no longer fulfill its economically useful purpose. The same thing happened after Anschluss, but fortunately for the Reich, Czecho-Slovakia, unlike Austria, can feed herself. Best hope for Czech as well as Austrian industry is that Dictator Hitler will soon grab some backward, goods-consuming neighbor States. Otherwise it goes without saying that the Czech standard of living will be lowered, for Germans, in general, far from expecting...
...arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told, the Führer will get arms for about 150,000 men. The army of occupation-never expected to fall much below this figure-can thus be armed without an additional strain to the Reich...
Having started with 181,268 square miles of territory and a population of 65,218,258, the Aggrandizer last week had in his hands a Reich far greater than pre-War Germany. The German Empire of 1914 covered 208,800 square miles and included 67,812,000 Germans. The German Empire of 1939 covers 259,375 square miles with a population of 86,590,491 -not all Germans...