Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordain,' " read the Chancellor quoting the President, " 'that, from tomorrow until a definitive ruling on the national colors, the black-white-red banner* and the swastika flag [Nazi] are to be hoisted in common. These flags link together the glorious past of the German Reich and the mighty rebirth of the German nation. In common they shall incorporate the power of the State and the internal unity of all the national forces of the German people. Military buildings will fly only the Imperial war flag...
...Communists had organized to poison food . . . and burn down granaries throughout the Reich. . . . They planned to use every kind of weapon-even hot water, knives and forks and boiling...
...every German these vital parts of his Constitution, the President fixed Death as the penalty for attempting to secure or disclosing important military secrets. Imprisonment for ten years was provided for transmitting to foreign governments "news, even if false, which should be kept secret in the interests of the Reich." Finally foreign correspondents in Germany were gagged with the threat of "not less than three months imprisonment" for transmitting abroad "news which should be kept from foreign governments, even if false...
...Democracy] into a radical form. . . . Well, we will take up the struggle against this insanity! [thunderous cheers] Not because we are in love with Capitalism-I am myself a child of the lower classes [deafening huzzahs]-but because we want to spare the people. . . . We will rebuild the German Reich by tenacious work! . . . The rise of the German people cannot be prevented...
...leader of the Nazi Party (largest in the Reichstag) be made Chancellor with "precisely the powers" of Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 22). Less than six months after this rebuff, the Goddess of the Eternal Court of History-as Orator Hitler so fetchingly calls her-makes him Chancellor of the Reich by assent of Old Paul von Hindenburg (TIME...