Third Reich

American  

noun

1. Germany during the Nazi regime 1933–45.

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Third Reich British  

noun

1. See Reich 1

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Third Reich Cultural  

1. The name given by the Nazis to their government in Germany; Reich is German for “empire.” Adolf Hitler, their leader, believed that he was creating a third German empire, a successor to the Holy Roman Empire and the German empire formed by Chancellor Bismarck in the nineteenth century.

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Example Sentences

However, 80 years after the fall of the Third Reich, not all looted assets have been returned to the victims' descendants.

From Barron's

Her bluff worked—and both she and her lover would survive against all odds until the Third Reich’s defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lying as an existential need: Poland attacked the Third Reich.

From Salon

That’s not a position that gets much traction among the disabled people appearing in director Reid Davenport’s “Life After,” one of whom calls the cause “reminiscent of the Third Reich.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Another placed Taylor Swift at the head of the Third Reich.

From The Wall Street Journal