Word: reiche
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Queasiest of Europe's quaking neutrals last week were the Swiss. In their two largest cities, Basle and Zurich, both within easy striking distance of the Reich, ominous instructions from the Swiss General Staff were distributed from house to house. These ordered the two cantons' 864,000 citizens to get ready to flee to the countryside in case Switzerland is attacked, warned them to hold themselves in permanent readiness for an evacuation call which may come at any moment...
...methodically looted the land of grain, foodstuffs, cattle, butter, swine, horses. Jewish and Polish property has been confiscated indiscriminately. Vast concentration camps have been set up and at least 300,000 young Poles, many of them former soldiers in the Polish Army, have been conscripted for labor in the Reich. Jews have been forced to wear identifying clothing (generally yellow arm bands), are largely confined to ghettos. Thousands of Jews, not only from former Polish provinces but also from Bohemia, Germany, Austria, have been dumped unceremoniously, with little food, clothing or money, into a small, not yet defined enclave around...
...Bonnet-Ribbentrop conversations were not made public at the time, but last week the Reich not only accused Foreign Minister Bonnet of double-crossing Germany but intimated that he had been quite willing to mislead his own Parliament...
...obvious I am needed there." The judge decided to make sure that the alleged thief of Patriot Prignitz's cash should not go untried. He held the robbed man in $5,000 bail as a material witness. Otto Prignitz wailed: "This means my ruin. . . . Nobody in the whole Reich will believe my story of why I was delayed...
...could be bought for only 50 miles at a time; the return trip was likely to cost quadruple the trip out. Students took their tuition fee to school every morning. By 1923 a box of matches sold for more marks than were in existence in prewar Germany. As the Reich's 1,783 State printing presses worked in three shifts, citizens toted their money about in specially made suitcases...