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

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

"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

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

To that end, Berlinger has made a deluxe version of the sort of history of Hitler, the Third Reich and the Holocaust that for years has been a staple of American cable television.

From New York Times

Hitler’s Third Reich was supposed to last at least 1,000 years.

From Salon