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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Third Reich

While this dynamic accurately describes the Third Reich, it has hardened into an orthodoxy that governs how information is interpreted and how moral categories are assigned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025

He has shown no enthusiasm for meeting the foreign correspondents, who have a perverse liking for enlightening visitors on the Third Reich, as they see it, and we have not pressed for an interview.”

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024

"She has to bring information from Nazi-occupied Poland right into the heart of the Third Reich as that's the fastest way they can get it to London."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2024

But though the Nazi government of Hitler’s Third Reich was clearly going to have to admit defeat pretty soon, they didn’t give up easily.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein