Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convincingly portrayed by a middle-aged Curt Jurgens), then cuts to Peenemunde, a remote marsh in western Prussia where the Wehrmacht in 1937 established a Raketenentwicklungszentrale for the German rocket buffs. Von Braun, then only 25, was put in charge of the technical side of the program. When the Reich collapses. Von Braun & Co. flee south to offer their secrets and services to the U.S. Army. Set up in White Sands. N. Mex., the rocketmen start plodding down the long trail of tests that leads at last to the launching of the first U.S. satellites...
Like so many German scientists, Engineer Manfred Gerlach, 55, came out of the wreckage of Hitler's Reich better off than ever. When the Russian armies over ran East Germany in 1945. Gerlach was one of a team of Junker jet experts hauled off to Russia to teach tricks of the trade to Russia's aircraft designers. Returned to Communist East Germany in 1954, he was put in charge of a plant to develop engines for the 66-152, the jet airliner that was to be the crowning glory of East Germany's new aircraft industry...
...week was a film that froze its packed audiences to stiff attention and sent them from the theater in silence with eyes averted. Compiled by a German-born Swedish intellectual named Erwin Leiser, it is a documentary that traces with graphic intensity the rise and collapse of the Third Reich. Its title: Mein Kampf...
...meeting of the Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg. It quoted at length from an article by Otto Dibelius in the weekly Friede und Freude of April 9, 1933-just 68 days after Hitler had come to power. Wrote the then 52-year-old Dibelius: "The government of the Reich has finally recognized the necessity to boycott Jewish businesses in the correct assumption that through the international connections of Jewry the hostile campaign in foreign countries will cease only when German Jewry is economically endangered . . . But this is not the solution to the Jewish problem . . . As soon as Jewish immigration...
Despite the public outcry, none of the big parties are keen to ban the German Reich Party. "There are so many ex-Nazis," explains a Socialist official. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's policy is still to ignore fanatic elements like the German Reich Party on the theory that its members will grow old and their issues will be forgotten by a democratically schooled youth. What many Germans, including Adenauer, dread is some unforeseen event, such as a heavy economic or political reverse for Germany, that could give the tiny German Reich Party an importance that it now certainly cannot claim...