Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command posts and airfield barracks. G.I.s agree that it is impossible to exterminate this foe. The next best thing, many of them believe, is to carve Germany into numerous smaller states and then keep permanent guard to make sure that the Germanic states do not reunite into a powerful Reich. Perhaps this is not farseeing, but the G.I.s have not yet heard a better plan...
...Poland and the Reich, his gigantic armies were (in Winston Churchill's feral phrase) "tearing the guts out of the German Army." In the world at large, his ambiguous political purposes were giving the creeps to practically everybody except professional Communists and those men of good will for whose professional unrealism (when it turns up among Russians) Stalin had always saved his most scathing barbs...
...since the Red Army burst into the Balkans had there been such a surge of Allied gratitude and respect for Russia as followed its Army's burst into the Reich. There was not only respect for the drive as a military feat-for mass and power and accomplishment, no Allied campaigns of World War II compared with...
...resistance might slow down the Russian advance. But at least it did not seem too much to hope that, if this Russian drive was not the last, it was the next to last, that a joint summer offensive from east and west would completely shatter the power of the Reich to wage...
...question of the future control of Germany was at issue. And since Germany was the strategic and economic key to Europe, so was the future of Europe and the world. Who would control the conquered Reich - Russia and the western Allies (who so far had barely dented the German frontiers) or the Russians alone (who might soon be in Berlin...