Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again the Roman Catholic bishops of Germany raised their corporate voice against religious persecution by the Third Reich. But this time both the character of their complaint (made last December) and the means of its publication (last week by U.S. official OWI) seemed more shrewdly calculated than ever before to implement their attack on the antireligious phases of Nazi philosophy...
...bishops spoke not only as good Catholics but as patriotic Germans. To Dr. Bernhard Rust, Reich Minister for Church Affairs, they pointed out the "rampart of bitterness and enmity" rising against Germans because of religious persecution in occupied lands, denounced Nazi persecution in language he could understand: "unwise politically...
...built a few U-boats and cached them in packing crates under the noses of Allied investigators. To train his first recruits, Doenitz established an institute which he blandly named "school for defense against submarines." When, in June 1935, Hitler's naval treaty with the British released the Reich from some of the Versailles restrictions, Doenitz was ready. By October his first flotilla was afloat. He was still bound to keep his visible U-boat fleet within limits, but by expanding his spare-parts system of construction he built far over the treaty ratio...
Outside the Third Reich, Lili Marleen has gone through various metamorphoses. The British changed it into a sentimental song. The Danes and Norwegians made up verses in which Hitler swung from Marleen's lamppost. Following this cue, the OWI has prepared a version for possible future use in propaganda broadcasts to Germany. Sample stanza...
Colonel Walther Scherff of Hitler's General Staff provided a further commentary on the Führer's status and on recent unverified reports that Hitler had been gravely ill during the period of bad news from Russia. Wrote the Colonel in Das Reich: "While the Führer's faith was unshakable ... he was not entirely a person of icy calm, for he suffered too much with his soldiers. . . . There is no genius without passion, and it would therefore have been unnatural if the Führer's will to master the crisis...