Third Reichn.
/θəːd ˈrʌɪx//θəːd ˈrʌɪk/ The German state under the rule of Hitler and the Nazi party, 1933–45; the regime of Hitler. Of the sequence First, Second (etc.) Reich, only Third Reich forms part of recognized English historical terminology.
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Third Reich1930
Weimar1932
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Thousand-Year Reich1946
1923 A. Moeller van den Bruck (title) Das dritte Reich.]
1930 Times 26 Sept. 12/2 Asked to give some idea of the ‘Third Reich’, Herr Hitler said the old Germany was a State of great honour and of glorious events, but the conception of ‘the people’ was not the central pillar of its structure. The second State had placed democracy and pacificism in the centre. They hoped for the Third Reich, which would have as its keystone the conception of the people and the national idea.
1933 L. Stowe Nazi Germany means War i. 9 On October 18th, four days after he had led the Third Reich out of the League of Nations..Adolf Hitler made the following peace declaration before eight hundred of his party leaders in Berlin.
1946 J. Flanner Janet Flanner's World (1980) i. 105 It was odd to..hear young Dr. Horn..state that it might well have been the international London Naval Conference of 1935 that drove Hitler's hypersensitive Third Reich into rearmament.
1966 Listener 3 Nov. 659/2 In the early years of the Third Reich, certain ideological ambiguities in Mann's attitude aroused Lukacs's apprehension.
1981 S. Dunmore Ace 6 The good old days when the flyers of the Third Reich could do no wrong.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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