Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly on Thursday, the radio networks of the Reich crashed out that thousands of Sudetens were fleeing to Germany, scrambling over the frontier at isolated points, and that at Eger, Führer Konrad Henlein had issued a proclamation before entering Germany as Czechoslovak Fugitive No. 1: "The use of machine guns, armored cars and tanks against defenseless* Sudeten Germans has reached the highest point of Czech oppression! ... It is definitely impossible for the Sudeten Germans and Czechs to live in the same state. . . . We want to return to our home† in the Reich! . . . God bless...
Germany's outstanding pagan philosopher is Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, erudite and devious "ideologist" to Adolf Hitler. Last week a speech which he recently made in private to the Reich Culture Chamber was published in London. It showed with crystal clarity that not only German Jews but Protestants and Roman Catholics have reason to fear Alfred Rosenberg. Excerpts...
...railway to Eisenstein on the Czech frontier was being double-tracked. General Göring bragged at Nürnberg that private industry on the Rhine was crippled, so heavily had he drafted workers to rush completion of the Siegfried line. Back from the borders, the Third Reich was an armed camp. Conscripts due for discharge this week were indefinitely retained in the army. With the calling of the new class, 1,500,000 men were in feldgrau from the North Sea to the Danube. All men under 65 were forbidden to leave Germany. All former officers and technicians...
Next Nürnberg number was 180,000 husky, two-fisted, district leaders of the Nazi Party from all over the Reich. "I could blindly depend on you!" the Führer told them with rising fervor, "[Germany] is determined to capitulate...
When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania's King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a "secret radio station" in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials...