Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life under the Heel. Planning eventually to incorporate the Ukraine into the Greater Reich, the Germans fostered schools for Ukrainians, with special emphasis on technical training. Many Ukrainian teachers, unable to retreat when the Nazis came, taught in these schools. Movie theaters were open in most cities. Artists in cities like Odessa and Kiev were permitted to exhibit non-political works. Plays ridiculing the Soviet regime were occasionally produced under German auspices...
...atmosphere of disaster blanketed the Reich last week. The Nazis decreed three days of mourning for the 330,000 German soldiers who had fought and lost at Stalingrad. Through press and radio the Germans were barraged with exhortations to put forth their greatest effort to hold back the danger from the east. In London and Washington Allied leaders cautioned their people against taking the signs from the Reich as too hopeful indications of an early collapse. But signs were there...
Manpower. To raise more than 1,000,000 workers and soldiers for war jobs and replacements at the front, Reich Economic Minister Walther Funk issued decrees of total mobilization. Retail tradesmen, restaurants and hotels were required to release every possible man. Theaters, bars, nightclubs and other places of amusement were closed down...
...killed, permanently wounded or captured in Hitler's war. This estimate equaled almost the entire German force which invaded Russia in June 1941; it approximated the full strength of the German armies which had laid down their weapons on the Armistice Day of World War I. Of the Reich's total population, 13% were estimated to be under arms, dead, or permanently disabled-3% more than the "normal mobilization" which is the generally considered maximum that any nation can spare, if its battlefronts are to be properly supplied by home-front production. On this basis, the U.S. could...
...African campaign. But, whoever was right, a parallel with the German position in 1918 was discernible. Until the last months of World War I, the German armies at the fronts were formidably strong. Yet the seeds of German defeat were working in their ranks and at home in the Reich, and the outward signs in 1918 were much the same as those which are visible...