Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saar back for Germany at any cost, began scouring Germany for oldtime Saar residents eligible to vote in next year's free-for-all. Then he rushed to Zweibriücken on the Saar border to scream at a huge crowd of 200,000: "Your return to the Reich is no longer a question of parliamentary or party support but of the will of 66,000,000 people, finally united and standing beside and behind you. No measures of force or despotism can separate us." He denounced the "separatist traitors" who had fled from Germany to the Saar...
Death for all who attempt forcibly to detach any part of the Reich territory or deliver it to any foreign power...
...regimentation of the entire youth of Germany now taking place, in the passion for parades, military organizations, uniforms and display in the youth of all ages in that country. Stories on Sunday spoke of demonstrations in Berlin of boys under fourteen years of age. Throughout the entire Reich the spirit of militarism is being systematically inculcated--a spirit which has war as its purpose and goal, and which seeks to induce in the youth of the land an eagerness to go out and fight...
...emissary went to Adolf Hitler last week, presented the compliments of Lutheran Archbishop Erling Eidem of Sweden and told the Chancellor: "The persecution and dismissal of opposition pastors from the German Evangelical Church is a disgrace to Germany." Touched on a tender spot, Herr Hitler roared at his Reich Bishop, shaven-headed Ludwig Müller: "There must be peace in the German Protestant Church by May 1." Reich Bishop Müller roared at the pastors: "There must be peace." "Peace," echoed the pastors, for whom religion in Germany was less than ever a thing of peace last week...
...Good Friday the Reich Bishop offered those pastors who rebelled at the imposition of Nazidom upon their church an iron olive branch: "I admonish them to abandon their perverted craving for martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...