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Catholicism's Pius XII* spoke of the Reich, where he had served long years on diplomatic missions. Said he: "[I will] follow developments of postwar Germany with love and, if necessary will give her . . . help...
...hours later, the Goebbels propaganda machine began grinding. Shouted the German radio: "The occupation of the Reich by Americans and British would be as horrible as by the Bolsheviks. Morgenthau is outdoing Clemenceau. Clemenceau said there were 23,000,000 Germans too many-Morgenthau wants to see 43,000,000 Germans exterminated...
...they had only a few more days left to fight outside the borders of the Reich. With Estonia and Latvia going and the larger part of Lithuania already gone, the Red Army would soon ring East Prussia around two-thirds of its perimeter...
...even with Cherbourg and the beaches, pipelines and planes, Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley 's armies would never have reached the Reich as swiftly had it not been for the Red Ball Express Highway. The R.B.E. is a one-way road which begins at Cherbourg and swings in a great loop, roughly south and east, to a point several hundred miles east of Paris...
Beyond the battle lines, under the hard official crust, the Reich was heaving. From Berlin came persistent stories of peace riots. There were frequent killings in the streets. Travelers to Bern and Stockholm now began to report that Germans might revolt. The Russian radio broadcast easy lessons in disarming police patrols. Said Moscow: "A hefty stick will get you a revolver; to get a rifle and a few grenades with the help of a pistol is no work of art." Himmler announced appointment of a new police chief for Berlin...