Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nster (twin target), Bremen (twice). Between these city-busters, heavy bombers in lesser force hit seven times at industrial targets in Germany and Norway; U.S. and R.A.F. medium bombers and fighter-bombers pecked away day & night in a precise pattern of attack on factories, airdromes, shipping, the Reich's outer defenses...
...west side of the Wilhelmstrasse only one building was undamaged : Hitler's new Reich Chancellery. Next to it Hitler's residence gaped to the sky, its roof burned...
...Foreign Office was burned, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' house gutted, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's house gone. Gone was the British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
After Hamburg was flattened by bombs, the organization was scattered from Berlin to all parts of the Reich. The broadcasters themselves are a motley crew of traitors and adventurers; many (including Lord Haw Haw) suffer from maudlin homesickness. Their pay, on the whole, is not high; Brita seldom hit $400 a month, even with overtime and extra broadcasts...
Last week the Colombian Senate confirmed (33-to-13) the declaration of Foreign Minister Carlos Lozano y Lozano that a state of belligerency existed between Colombia and Germany. Colombia thus became the 13th Latin American nation at war with Hitler's Reich.* Of the seven others, six have broken diplomatic relations but have not declared war. Only total neutral: Argentina...