Word: reich
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...After the ban in Germany you wrote and offered to refund part of my subscription fee. I emphatically rejected this offer, which showed that I had much more faith in TIME than in the duration of Hitler's thousand-year Reich. History has proved that I was right...
...picturebook town with medieval houses and a ducal castle, Celle is about 20 miles from Hannover. It had kept its traditions even through the Third Reich. With the coming of the airlift, Celle's burghers found themselves thrust into an atmosphere of sex and schnapps. From all over Germany eager opportunists rushed to Celle to help make the G.I.s happy. Jazz bands filled the town with boogie-woogie. A hundred new bars opened up. Taxi drivers came from as far away as Hamburg to work in Celle. They took meters off, charged $5 to nearby Fassberg airport, where...
...author phrases the catastrophe in explicit and--for a German--uncommon terms. "In the gas chambers of the concentration camps the last breath of Christian feeling for humanity and of the Christian culture of the West was finally extinguished. The Third Reich was not only the greatest misfortune that the German people have suffered in their existence; it was also their greatest shame...
...author phrases the catastrophe in explicit and--for a German--uncommon terms. "In the gas chambers of the concentration camps the last breath of Christian feeling for humanity and of the Christian culture of the West was finally extinguished. The Third Reich was not only the greatest misfortune that the German people have suffered in their existence; it was also their greatest shame...
...Orange Placard. To Joseph P. McNulty, U.S. official in charge of former Reich property, came the heads of West Berlin city government agencies, in search of office space. Would he requisition the Reichsbahn-Direktion building? Wholly within his and the U.S.'s legal rights, McNulty agreed on one condition: the Soviet switchboard was to continue functioning. Then he signed his orange-colored Notice of Requisition, gave it to the city officials to post on the building. U.S. Commandant Major General Maxwell D. Taylor was not notified, nor was Taylor's superior in Frankfurt, U.S. High Commissioner John...