Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alibi. The bankrupt Reich's receivers did their utmost to absolve the German people and the German military command of responsibility for the war and the defeat. Blame went impartially to: 1) the Nazi party, no longer to be confused with the German nation; 2) an "unfortunate" shortage of equipment. This inferiority, the propaganda suggested, was no reflection on the power and genius of German arms and could be corrected next time...
Allied officers, probing the putrescent wound of Buchenwald, unexpectedly discovered a sound human core which promised much for the future of Germany-2,000 German prisoners who had a plan for a liberal, anti-fascist Reich...
...Third Reich was ending in political rubble and rabble. But even death demands an undertaker. To head the rump Reich appeared a rump Führer-Grand Admiral Ivarl Doenitz, a fanatical Nazi, and Hitler's master planner of submarine warfare. Seconding him was Albert Speer, also a fanatical Nazi, and Hitler's brilliant Minister of War Production...
These men, headed by Berlin Communist Walter Bartel, had drafted a blueprint for Germany. They wanted: 1) a popular front of anti-fascist committees to provide the framework of an interim government; 2) re-establishment of a modified form of the Weimar Republic; 3) federalization of the new Reich to prevent domination by Prussia; 4) confiscation of all Nazi property; 5) close economic relations with Russia; 6) educational reform...
Adolf Hitler loved music-especially Wagner. In Mein Kampf, he had written: "My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth master knew no bounds." The Third Reich, Hitler said, had its foundations in the German myths of Composer Richard Wagner, and the shrine at Wagner's Bayreuth was called "the Olympus of German art." In 1938 Hitler ordered that the military music of his favorite composer be used at all of Nürnberg's pagan rallies, and he sat for long hours at Berchtesgaden listening to recordings of Siegfried...