And what had it got to do with 1000 year?
2006-12-26 01:40:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The First Reich in German history was the Holy Roman Empire, which was, in actuality, neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. It was a kind of very loose confederation of principalities, from among which the Holy Roman Emperor was chosen in the Middle Ages.
The Second Reich was the unification of Germany under Bismarck in the late 1800's.
The Weimar Republic came into being following the collapse of the German Empire after World War I, and Hitler declared the birth of the Third Reich (he even went so far as to dub it "The Thousand-Year Reich," figuring that it would stand for at least a millennium; he was only off by about 988 years).
2006-12-28 03:08:10 · answer #1 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The First Reich was Charlemagne, King of the Franks and first Holy Roman Emperor which lasted from 800 to 1806.
The Second Reich was the German Empire, founded at the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles which lasted from 1877 to 1919.
The Third Reich was Hitler's Germany, which lasted from 1933 to 1945 (just a bit short of a thousand years!).
2006-12-27 02:17:47 · answer #2 · answered by sdvwallingford 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term Third or Drittes Reich translates roughly as "Third Empire". It comes from Hitler's desire to link Nazi-dominated Germany to previous periods of German power. The first Reich refers to the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne, the second to the Second German empire, under the Kaisersn and Otto von Bismark in the second half of the nineteenth century. Hitler's propoganda machine indicated that the third Reich would be the greatest of the three, and would stand for a thousand years.
Today, the term third Reich is synonymous with Nazi Germany.
2006-12-26 01:48:33 · answer #3 · answered by 2Bs 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Nazi Germany or the Third Reich, officially called the German Reich (Deutsches Reich), and later the Greater German Reich (Großdeutsches Reich), refers to Germany in the years 1933 to 1945, when it was governed by the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP), with Führer Adolf Hitler as chancellor and, from 1934, head of state. The foreign policy pursued by Nazi Germany, based on the concept of Lebensraum, was among the leading causes of the Second World War.
2006-12-26 01:42:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reich can be translated as nation, realm or empire. For example, France is Frankreich or Realm of the Franks in German. In this usage, the first reich was the Holy Roman Empire, destroyed by Napoleon, and the second reich was Imperial Germany unitl the end of World War I. The Nazis saw themselves as re-establishing Germany to prominence it had during the two previous incarnations.
2016-05-23 07:41:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Das Dritte Reich means The Third Empire. third because: the first one was the Roman Empire, the second the holy empire of the German nation and finally the third was the Hitler's Third Empire! Let us just say that his "fishes/ideas" were similar to the firs two empires - united world under one, "great" leader.
2006-12-26 01:55:14 · answer #6 · answered by dea_sulj 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Drittes Reich.
2006-12-26 01:52:09 · answer #7 · answered by BarbieQ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
See wikipedia for the meaning of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Reich.
2006-12-26 01:43:08 · answer #8 · answered by ricochet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Third Empire
2006-12-26 06:24:37 · answer #9 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-26 05:06:01 · answer #10 · answered by sunkissed 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋