Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great new engine works, also built far from the Allied bomber fields. At Beuthen was the biggest zinc mine in Europe. Out of Katowice had poured automobiles, chemicals, machine tools. Out of the basin had gone much of the coal for the industries and railroads of the eastern Reich and Czechoslovakia...
Silesia Kaput. Official Berlin was staggered. Bluntly, it told the German people that Silesia had been written off, that the Reich's second most important industrial area was a place for house-to-house battling. Even as the Germans heard that agonizing news, the street battles were ended...
Over the Border. Zhukov had also made dramatic advances. By this week his waves had lapped entirely around Poznan, 180 miles west of Warsaw. Two widening spears thrust over the Reich's borders, less than 80 miles from Frankfort on the Oder...
Over Again. Zhukov had linked his power in the north with that of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army. Russian spearheads passed the Reich's borders, cut the main Berlin-Danzig railroad, surrounded Schneidemühl, an anchor point on the prewar defense wall Germany had built facing Poland. The main objective: Stettin...
Friends & Enemies. Most profound is the sharp increase in hatred of Germans. Perhaps Americans at home still look to ward Japan with deeper hatred, but front line troops in Europe turn their hate to ward the Reich, now that they have struggled with it in bitter combat. That sharpening of hatred is accompanied by increasing concern over what to do with Germany, and by a fellow feeling for the Russian Army, which still kills the most Germans...