Word: reiche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They agreed to agree on the postwar shape of Europe: on the means and extent of control in Germany; on the enforced breakup of the Greater Reich, first by restoring Austria's independence; on the interests to prevail in the Balkans, where both Russia and Britain have great stakes; and, by silent implication, on control of Russia's European borderlands (eastern Poland, Bessarabia, the Baltics). And they agreed to agree on a postwar association of nations, otherwise undefined, "for the maintenance of international peace and security...
These manifestations of justice in the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler were by no means isolated. The German press and radio are reporting a half-dozen or more such cases each day, to let the population know how badly some Germans are behaving, how ruthlessly the regime is punishing the slightest slip in wartime discipline. But to the rest of the world, this policy of revelation is a significant squiggle on the German fever chart, a new piece of evidence that Germany is weakening-militarily, politically, psychologically...
Such evidence has been piling up in recent weeks. Last week rumors and reports poured in from the neutral countries near Germany, from the Reich itself, from occupied territory. The message they seemed to spell out: crisis is bringing on important changes in the German High Command and civil government. Expert observers in London studied the evidence with interest and caution, offered an interested and cautious verdict: "Could...
...hrer is in danger. The forces of reaction want to eliminate the Führer and subject the Reich to a military dictatorship which, against the nation's will, would immediately start peace negotiations. The Führer, in his magnanimity, has refused to start to take drastic steps against the traitors in order not to rob the army of its leader at these critical hours. Report immediately to the nearest party office, police or SS every suspicious occurrence, every rumor, every colored or slanderous statement about the Führer...
...Sweden's Göteborg harbor last week 4,323 British and 17 U.S. prisoners of war, wounded beyond military usefulness, boarded transports, tasted white bread, coughed over once familiar cigarets. They were a part of the first successful prisoner exchange with the Reich; the stories they brought out were the first such accounts from inside Germany. Some of the Stories...