Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Retreat to the Reich? Moscow said that the Germans were rushing up reserves and new equipment to stop the Russians. Berlin talked of "elastic German defenses leading to further withdrawals." Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing under duress. Perhaps the Russians were pursuing more than attacking but wanted to make their gains loom as large as possible. Perhaps the Germans' "further withdrawals" may eventually take them out of Russia. If so, these circumstances explained in part the speed of the Red Army's offensive...
Adolf Hitler's retreat to elastic defenses may have been too late for anything less than the complete failure of his Russian campaign. If so, his only hope is to withdraw to the Reich and convert it (and Western Europe) into an impregnable fortress (TIME, Feb. 8). But that remained to be proved. What had been proved was that the Red Army was giving his Wehrmacht no rest or resting place...
Clear the Road. "I am in despair," wrote a German soldier in his diary on Hitler's tenth anniversary as the Reich's Chancellor. "How much longer is it going to last? . . . What have I done? If I could only live in peace." When Soviet Author Ilya Ehrenburg saw the diary he provided the answer: "Who asked you to come to our country? You could have stayed at home with your wife. But you chose Hitler. There is only one thing left for you: 'Die, scoundrel! Clear the road for life...
Clear Thinking. It was unfortunate but true that this growing state of apprehension played directly into Germany's hands, and would continue to do so unless Washington and London grappled intelligently with the problem. In his weekly magazine, Das Reich, Propaganda Minister Goebbels picked up the ragged theme of recent speeches by Hitler and Goring. He predicted the end of Western civilization if Germany did not remain as a bulwark against Communism, adding slyly: "Perhaps even in London there are a few clear-thinking men who could imagine what that would mean for Britain...
High over the capital of the Reich droned planes of the R.A.F. Swift, light Mosquito bombers, in the first daytime raid on Berlin, were dodging ack-ack, fighting off the few fighters of the astonished Luftwaffe and raining 500-lb. bombs on a now noisy and exploding city...