Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground, Allied pressure against the Third Reich tightened a few more agonizing notches. Yet there was still no sign of German collapse. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had learned his lesson, said to correspondents in Paris: "If the German continues to show the spirit he has now, there is only one way he can be beaten-the Allied armies must meet the Russian armies in the center of Germany...
Tactical Purposes. Hitherto Russia had used these officers in a tactical way to issue statements and make broadcasts against Hitler in order to disrupt morale within the Reich, and especially in the German army. What Marshal Stalin promised at Yalta was that he would not reinstate these officers in their old jobs at the head of an unpurged Wehrmacht...
Another Konev column plunged nearer to Dresden. Still another surged up the Autobahn toward Berlin's southern gates, in a drive aimed through the Cottbus rail center. Hard fighting raged inside the walled, medieval town of Guben, communications center 65 miles southeast of the Reich's capital. Great clouds of smoke, rising from fires set by British and American airmen, beckoned them...
Would Argentina declare an eleventh-hour war on the Reich? Argentina's Acting Foreign Minister, small, wiry Cesar Ameghino, last week announced that a "state of tension" existed between Germany and Argentina. Using the pretext that the Nazis were preventing repatriation of seven Argentine diplomats caught in Europe, Señor Ameghino sent Germany a hot note of protest. He warned the Nazis that next time "the Argentine Government would consider such action as an act of hostility...
...hundred thousand of the 2,000,000 French war prisoners and deportees in the Reich had been freed by the Red Army...