Word: reiche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With that the Reich will lose its political power and with it the chance of securing for the German people its living rights on this earth...
...There in 1870 their Second Empire fell to the Prussians. For four years the soldiers of the German Emperor held it after 1914, not to be ousted until five days before Armistice by the French and the U. S. Rainbow Division. On Tuesday afternoon the soldiers of the Third Reich entered Sedan. There was now very little hope of saving Belgium. It was a question of saving France. A further German breakthrough would imperil the whole of France's western defenses to the sea. The French rear areas were taking an awesome beating from the bombs and strafing...
...This crime will rouse the general conscience, and the Reich will have to justify herself before history...
That this help was pre-arranged constituted the burden of Germany's bill of particulars last week against Belgium. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop extended the accusation to include spying by Belgians to help Britain and France mount an offensive against the Reich's industrial heart in the Rhineland. The German High Command protested that Belgium's fortresses and military obstacles were all directed against Germany, none against France; that 14 out of 21 Belgian divisions mobilized last October were stationed in the east; that "this one-sided deployment" was not changed when Britain and France massed troops...
World War I was waged on three fronts: land, sea, air. World War II has a fourth: short-wave radio. Last week a German salvo (in Spanish) shelled Catholic Latin America with assurances that Catholicism still fared well in the Reich and in the silence that was Poland...