Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...host the uninvited guest brought the Great Cross of the German Order of the Eagle,* one of the Third Reich's most dazzling decorations. Mannerheim, reciprocating, buttered up the Nazis by calling them brothers in arms, hoped this year might "see the end of Bolshevist barbarism." Afterward he held what Berlin called "lengthy conversations" with Hitler and other Nazi surprise guests: Chief of Staff General Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and newly promoted Colonel General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl...
Dismissing the fond notion that the Third Reich can easily be starved into submission, the picture aptly illuminates the Nazis' use of food to control their conquered peoples. In stricken cities food is used to lure skilled workers to the Nazi war industries; in other places food is removed so that Jews and unwanted nationals will die. Those who play ball with the Nazis eat better than those who don't. The Nazis know that the undernourished are too numb to revolt...
...jury was out five and a half hours. They decided to take the State's story, that Madeline had invited her friend Mrs. Susie Reich over to her hotel so that Eli and Cullen could pounce on her and rob her. When they filed in again, they found all three guilty of first-degree murder, with a recommendation of mercy for Madeline. Eli's girl forgot again about being a lady. She pounded the table and screamed: "Please . . . please, I didn't!" Eli wept: "You have crucified...
...weather was finally fine enough to give Germany a look at the fiery face of the future. From British fields the mightiest air armada man had ever seen thundered across the channel, swept through German anti-aircraft defenses. Over Cologne (pop. 768,000), fifth largest city of the Reich, they dropped a trainload of bombs...
...said Heydrich. "We killed 82 of them the first four days after I got hurt. And we'll kill hundreds more. We'll kill them or they'll kill us. There must be no Czecho-Slovakia left, no one left in Europe who opposes the German Reich. You might have thought it was an old-fashioned idea to round up hostages and shoot them by the hundreds when one of the conquerors is killed. It isn't. It's effective, and after a while it becomes pleasant, too, whether the hostages are Jews...