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THIRD REICH
THIRD REICH
ScnMaster
the name given by the
Nazis
to their government in
Germany
;
Reich
is
German
for "
empire
." Adolf
Hitler
believed that he was creating a
third
German empire
, a successor to the
Holy Roman Empire
(a Germanic
empire
of
central
European states which lasted from the ninth century until 1806) and the
German empire
formed in 1871.
See also
Nazi
and
German Reich
in this glossary.
—NVRD Approved Glossary