Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he had cut his hand on a broken glass and then wiped the blood over his face and into his hair." There is a timely last chapter on the Reichswehr generals. Though more & more under the Nazi thumb, they are still the most independent group in the Third Reich. For by winning or losing the war, it is still the generals who will finally decide the fate of their goose-stepping Caesars and most of mankind...
...calendar already bulging with red-letter days, Germany added a particularly sanguinary one last fortnight. The Reich commemorated the first anniversary of its stewardship in Poland by executing "Stefan the Stubborn" Starzynski, last mayor of Warsaw, outstanding hero of World...
...shortage of food last winter left Moscow without bread for three days. Official German visitors drained Russian food stores to supply their families in the Reich...
...Adolf Hitler had observed the first anniversary by incorporating all of German-occupied Poland in the Reich. "The swastika will fly over this land forever," proclaimed Governor General Hans Frank. The name Poland was ordered purged from the German vocabulary...
...unreality surrounding them. There are the same successes with minor characters, the same fine ear for idiom. There is the same power to create fantastic episodes, like Piggy Logan's inane marionette show, or the pathetic account of the little Jewish lawyer who attempts to flee the Third Reich and gets caught. There is Wolfe's vast, ever-welling pity for all lowly, downcast little people who mainly populate the earth, his deep, constantly iterated, constantly irritated concern for his integrity as man and artist. Above all, there is Thomas Wolfe's cosmic sense of Thomas Wolfe...