Word: reich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picture. When the Red army smashed into the Reich, Gehlen fled west, taking his files with him. He made three copies of each of his records and deposited them at three different addresses. Later, when the Cold War came, U.S. intelligence officers found the Gehlen files invaluable. Gehlen was flown to Washington and returned to Germany with the secret understanding that he would rebuild his intelligence apparatus and set it to work for both the U.S. and Western Germany. Reportedly, his terms included that he never would have to operate against the "German interest," and he himself would...
...pictures portrays a figure in jack-boots and a Sam Brown belt whipping a group of slaves, while the other depicts an attack by a party of modernly equipped warriors upon an enemy using shields and spears. The museum, however, still officially denies any direct analogy to the third Reich...
...prude. One night he dragged the embarrassed Kubizek off to inspect Vienna's red-light district, and later lectured for hours on the evils of prostitution. Not much better than prostitution, in his opinion, was the cosmopolitanism of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Even then, he ranted about the "Reich of all the Germans,'' the need for racial purity...
...Hoettl, Himmler even hired a batch of professing alchemists and put them to work in the cellar at Gestapo headquarters to make gold. How did this man, "who in normal times would have been put into a nursing home," become the "foremost man after Hitler in the German Reich?" For one thing, says Hoettl, Hitler was "an indifferent judge of men." For another, Himmler was propped up by an evil genius behind the scenes, his henchman Reinhard Heydrich, "the Hangman...
...enthusiasts. Now it is told by a German general who put them to work for the German army. Under his direction the rocketeers' dreams of space fligts. turned into a hardheaded weapons project, then into a nightmare, as the Nazi government fell into corruption and Hitler's Reich turned to rubble under Allied attack...