Third Reich

noun

1. Germany during the Nazi regime 1933–45.

Third Reich

noun

1. See Reich 1

Third Reich

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.

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.”

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

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Oddly, some people still stop short of characterizing “Andor” as commentary on fascism, although parallels between the Empire and Adolf Hitler's Third Reich abound.

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