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...Reich which Adolf Hitler said would last a thousand years is ten years old this week. In one decade it has all but spanned a life's cycle, from depression's depths to a pinnacle of power on which it is now tottering. With 990 years to go, the Nazi Reich this week told its people: "We must keep cool. The situation is critical. We are facing an enemy superior in numbers, in everything...
Death of a Republic. On the evening of Jan. 30, 1933, the boots of the brown-clad Storm Troops beat like thudding drums along the Wilhelmstrasse beneath a flaming canopy of torches. Leaning far out over the Reich's Chancellery balcony, Adolf Hitler, with sparkling eyes, watched them march past. Battalion after battalion swung by, bands crashing out the song Die Fahne Hoch. ... In a nearby window, a rocklike silhouette, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg gazed on the parade with age-dimmed eyes...
Jansen and Weyl, who have felt Naziism's heavy hand, forecast a reign of terror in the Reich before the Nazis' grip is loosed. This punishment, they believe, is inevitable and must be suffered. But they take issue with those who class all Germans as Nazi brutes whose record bars them forever from a place in future world affairs. They predict for Germany "a government of the people, by the people and for the people" which will be established by a democratic revolution. As Social Democrats and members of the Underground they speak...
...Lancaster on the first raid was New York Timesman James MacDonald, winner of a coin toss that made him representative of the U.S. press. Carefully he noted that the big bomber whipped over the camouflaged decoys on the approach to the Reich's capital and planted its bombs in the midst of fires set by others ahead of it. When his bomber was 60 miles away on the trip home he could still see the red flare of Berlin's fires...
Unhappy Valleys. On eight of eleven successive nights in the new year, the R.A.F. had bashed the Ruhr, plowing through the strongest anti-aircraft defenses the world has ever seen. In "Happy Valley," the R.A.F.'s ironic label for the industrial heart of the Reich, few bombs had been wasted, for the factories and foundries lie cheek by jowl for miles. And on their edges are the windowless homes of the Ruhr workers. Their nights were shattered, their work was impaired even when they went back to jobs in plants that had escaped blockbusters and incendiaries...