Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Based upon evidence collected toward the end of last year by the Interallied Military Commission of Control (of German armaments), which the Germans call "the Spy Commission," the Allied Governments charged defaults in the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty, ordered the Reich to dissolve the German General Staff (forbidden by the Treaty), to reduce the Army to 100,000 men (the number permitted by the Treaty), to stop recruiting men on short service enlistments (according to the Treaty, enlistments should be for twelve years), to reduce the Green Police to 150,000 (the number permitted in 1920), to cease...
...German people have placed me at the head of the Reich. According to the Constitution, I take over this day the chief command of the Wehrmacht. I greet the Army and Navy with pride...
Philologically, Mr. Schaye is correct, but the common translation given to the word Reich is Empire, and its current meaning is Empire to most Germans...
...your issue of May 4, Page 8, third column, about Germany you say: "Hindenburg is the figurehead of the German Reich (the last word, still retained, means Empire...
This is not quite correct. In the German language, Reich means Realm, State. Only by attaching another word, it gets a specialized meaning...