Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schumacher," cried the Chancellor, "is the first martyr of the Third Reich. . . . We are confident that his death has not been in vain and that out of it will come what we long for. The murderers of this German soldier are not identified with the millions of our racial brethren across the border. If these, our brethren, could freely raise their voices they would solemnly disavow the murderers and the principles responsible for this bloody crime...
Highest Bishop Muller tried to calm his flock by suspending temporarily the "non-Aryan clause," but non-Nazi pastors rallied 3,000 strong to denounce the Nazi "German Christians." Risking reprisals from Nazi Storm Troopers, they read out from 3,000 pulpits throughout the Reich a stinging protest directed, by implication, at the Nazi State itself. "Heathendom has penetrated into the bosom of our church," they read. "Many Christians have to submit their consciences to human leaders, in contradiction of the essence of the Church...
...supervisor of the election, Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick announced after anxious cogitation that the plebiscite question will be put in highly personal language on the ballot thus: "Dost thou, German man or German woman, approve of the policy of the Reich government, and art thou ready to acknowledge this policy as the expression of thy own viewpoint and will and solemnly pledge thyself thereto...
...give this [Germany's] claim [to equality] documentary form," he continued in ringing tones, "I decided to beg the Reich President to dissolve the Reichstag and give the German people opportunity for making an historic affirmation. . . . May the world, from such an affirmation, gain the conviction that the German people, in this battle for equality and honor, declare itself completely at one with the Government!" "Glory Bedecked Opponents." Cannily the Chancellor, who knows that Germany is in no condition to withstand a preventive war launched from France today, hailed in his speech "the French soldier, our old glory-bedecked...
Jewelers and novelty shops all over the Reich did a brisk business last week selling lapel pins enameled or embossed with foreign flags. In many cases the pins doubtless worked, saved their wearers from instant Nazi assault for failure to salute passing Storm Troop banners. But one day last week in the smoky Ruhr metropolis of Dusseldorf, inoffensive Roland Velz, a U. S. citizen and superintendent of a group of Germany's Woolworth stores, went walking, pinless, with his wife. Cheering Dusseldorfers stood massed along the curbstone six deep as a Storm Battalion marched past, grim-faced with blaring...