Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reich which Adolf Hitler said would last a thousand years is ten years old this week. In one decade it has all but spanned a life's cycle, from depression's depths to a pinnacle of power on which it is now tottering. With 990 years to go, the Nazi Reich this week told its people: "We must keep cool. The situation is critical. We are facing an enemy superior in numbers, in everything...
Transport. German war historians admitted that a transportation crisis was a prime reason for the failure of Germany's military effort in 1918. Today Hitler's Reich is suffering from a gradual loss in transport efficiency, a slow decline in speed of movement. Important freight is clogging in yards, on canals, in warehouses. Germany's whole military economy feels the effects...
...Berlin caught it, not once but twice on successive nights, not token-wise but in two crashing raids. For the first time in more than 14 months (except for several light raids by Russian bombers) Allied aircraft wheeled in "strong force" (meaning hundreds) over the camouflaged symbol of the Reich's indestructibility...
...Lancaster on the first raid was New York Timesman James MacDonald, winner of a coin toss that made him representative of the U.S. press. Carefully he noted that the big bomber whipped over the camouflaged decoys on the approach to the Reich's capital and planted its bombs in the midst of fires set by others ahead of it. When his bomber was 60 miles away on the trip home he could still see the red flare of Berlin's fires...
Unhappy Valleys. On eight of eleven successive nights in the new year, the R.A.F. had bashed the Ruhr, plowing through the strongest anti-aircraft defenses the world has ever seen. In "Happy Valley," the R.A.F.'s ironic label for the industrial heart of the Reich, few bombs had been wasted, for the factories and foundries lie cheek by jowl for miles. And on their edges are the windowless homes of the Ruhr workers. Their nights were shattered, their work was impaired even when they went back to jobs in plants that had escaped blockbusters and incendiaries...