Third Reich

noun

1. Germany during the Nazi regime 1933–45.

Third Reich

noun

1. See Reich
   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.