Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a fourth assumption, less obvious but more important: that the Allies would build up the industries of Germany's neighbors so they might replace the Reich in Europe's economy. Already the British, watching the weakening of their old German customer, were complaining. One day the Germans, now reduced to futile plots, might find more effective ways to complain...
Annie broadcast a four-and-a-half-hour program each night, using the call letters Nachtsender 1212. The program included authentic war reports, accurate pictures of life at the front and at home, Viennese waltzes and German folk songs. The station pretended to be inside the Reich, also warmly pro-German, sadly and desperately honest about every lost Nazi position. For Nazi field commanders, it was often the only way to learn how things were going...
Subtly, Annie became bolder as more & more Nazis accepted her authenticity. Soon, she appealed for help from other sectors to rescue surrounded party leaders. More men & equipment were thus lured into capture. On other occasions, Annie would innocently report "facts" that troubled civilians. Example: the Reich's cartographical institute, said Annie, was short of maps numbered 315 to 318; they were badly needed for national defense. Why, the Germans asked themselves, did the high command need maps of Westphalia, still 300 miles inside the Reich...
...believed Hitler had done the Reich a lot of good between...
...years Switchman Fritz Walther had handled Berlin's eastbound trains. Ebert's presidential train, Hindenburg's three-car special, Hitler's headquarters coach has passed his post. A loyal Nazi, Walther was twice decorated by the Third Reich for devotion to duty...