der langen Messer – "State Murder Week, Night of the Long Knives" of June–July 1934 during which Hitler assassinated hundreds of party-internal opponents, especially the SA, which was decapitated of its leadership. Reichsparteitage – "State Party Days", referred to in English as the Nuremberg Rallies, Nazi party rallies, held annually in Nüremberg near the date of the autumn equinox before the outbreak of war in 1939. Joseph Goebbels said of the Nuremberg Rallies, "The Führer and I consider ourselves artists and the German people are our canvas." Reichsprotektor – Ruling German representative in the Czech Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Reichsschrifttumskammer – the Nazi Chamber of Literature. Hanns Johst was president. Reichssicherheitshauptamt – Reich Security Main Office or RSHA; an SS subsidiary organization made up of 7 main departments including, the intelligence & security forces and secret police forces for Germany and occupied territories; also oversaw the Einsatzgruppen. Originally led by Reinhard Heydrich. Reichsstatthalter – "Stadtholder of the Realm", i.e., Reich Governor; after the seizure of power in 1933, local governments were dissolved and the Gauleiters were appointed to govern the states with full powers. Reichstag – "Realm Diet (or Parliament)"; see Reichstag (building), Reichstag (Nazi Germany). Reichstrunkenbold – "Reich drunkard", derogative name secretly given to Robert Ley whose alcoholism was widely known. Reichs-Uschla – the highest level of the four-tiered Uschla system, venued in Munich. Reichswasserleiche – "Reich water corpse", nickname given to Swedish film actress Kristina Söderbaum due to a tendency of her characters in NS propaganda films such as Jud Süss to commit suicide by drowning. Reichswehr "national defense" – the armed forces of the Weimar Republic, strictly limited under the Versailles Treaty. Renamed the Wehrmacht in 1935. The Reichswehr comprised: the Army, Reichsheer the Navy, Reichsmarine Reichswerke Hermann Göring – an industrial conglomerate which absorbed the captured industrial assets of German-occupied countries. By the end of 1941 the Reichswerke became the largest company in Europe, with a capital of (equivalent to billion euros) and about half a million workers. Reinrassig – a zoological term meaning "of pure breed." Applied to human races, persons who could not prove their Aryan ancestry could be considered nicht reinrassig. Restpolen ("remainder of Poland") – parts of occupied Poland that were organized as the General Government in September 1939. Resttschechei ('remnants of the Czech lands' or 'rump Czech state') – (1) The Second Czechoslovak Republic, after the annexation of the Sudetenland in