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

The ministry said it was sending experts to Ghent, Belgium to examine the photos and to talk to a collector of Third Reich memorabilia who had put them on sale on Ebay on Saturday.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

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

"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

On a stormy, steamy summer day in 2003, as I approached the Gasometer Oberhausen, which the Third Reich used for fuel storage, I expected the enormous cylindrical structure would prove the gloomiest building in Germany.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

Jewish artists and intellectuals of all kinds fled Nazism, and music by Jews, Communists and Blacks was banned in the Third Reich and its occupied territories.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall