Word: reiche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler and his aides had thought it unthinkable that Germany should ever be scarred by enemy attack. Hermann Göring promised on Aug. 9, 1939: "As Reich Minister for Air, I have convinced myself personally of the measures taken to protect the Ruhr against air attack. In future I will look after every battery, for we will not expose the Ruhr to a single bomb dropped by enemy aircraft." Every night last week 80 tons of bombs were dropped on the Ruhr...
...Economically the Nazis are plundering the country by making the Danes pay 450,000,000 kroner for Reich "protection" and compelling the National Bank of Denmark to finance German imports with unlimited credit. Denmark, which always had an export balance, now owes Germany 1,500,000,000 kroner, and inflation is taking hold...
...radio coup. Fortnight ago they released tall, bald, bespectacled Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse from an internment camp at Tost, ensconced him at Government expense in a suite in Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon, gave him permission to come and go as he pleased within the confines of the Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid pro quo basis good conduct seemed hardly enough to warrant such great...
Said Secretary Welles's statement: "If any further proof could conceivably be required of the real purposes and projects of the present leaders of Germany for world domination, it is now furnished by Hitler's treacherous attack upon Soviet Russia. ... To the leaders of the German Reich sworn engagements to refrain from hostile acts against other countries . . . are but a symbol of deceit. To the present German Government the very meaning of the word 'honor' is unknown...
Said President Roosevelt: "Full reparation for the losses and damages suffered by American nationals will be expected from the German Government." Denouncing "the methods of terrorism . . . employed by the present leaders of the German Reich," the President said that the U.S. "will neither be intimidated nor will it acquiesce" in Hitler's plan to dominate the world. "We are not yielding," said Franklin Roosevelt, "and we do not propose to yield...