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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 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

I ate my corned-beef hash, then made down my bed and dug out Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck