Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team of Soviet detectives conducted last week that if Adolf Hitler was dead, he had not died in the ruins of his Reich Chancellery...
...Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi Reich's chief mythologist and "Director of Philosophic Outlook," was found by the British. His hiding place: a hospital bed within a stone's throw of Admiral Doenitz' headquarters in Flensburg (see above). Rosenberg's presence strengthened suspicions that Himmler may have also taken refuge somewhere near Doenitz...
After five years in the German Reich, Winston Churchill's "dear Channel Islands" were back in the British Empire last week. The Germans had surrendered. Cheering crowds lined the harbor of St. Peter Port, the port of Guernsey, to greet the British battalions. Then, out of an assault craft stepped an austere, black-clad man. On his head was a black bowler. In one hand he held a tightly rolled umbrella. Under one arm he hugged a black G.R. (a dispatch case with a George Rex imprint). At the first sight since 1940 of a typical London civil servant...
...will fall before the Chancellery' or 'I must die here in Berlin.' He reasoned that the cause was irretrievably lost, in com plete contrast to his previous attitude, which had always been: 'We will fight to the last tip of the German Reich.' "What reasons motivated his change of heart no one knows. He expressed the fact that his confidence was shaken. He had lost confidence in the Wehrmacht quite a while ago, saying that he had not gotten true reports, that bad news had been withheld from him. This afternoon he said that...
...Hitler's Reich, Germans who risked listening to the verboten radio usually tuned to Deutsche Kurzwellensender Atlantik (Radio Atlantic). It came in like a ton of bricks, and knew so much about Nazidom that many listeners-German and Allied-believed that it was beamed from the German underground. Censorship forbade disclosure that Atlantic was pouring out propaganda to lower German morale, and some U.S. papers printed the propaganda as "news...