Third Reich
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- noun
- /θɜrd raɪk/
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Tercer Reich
- In the Third Reich, weren't there a number of high-ranking Nazis of Jewish origin?
- Hitler and the Third Reich
And he spoke about these German philosophers doing a moral autopsy on the Third Reich.
- And he spoke about these German philosophers doing a moral autopsy on the Third Reich.
- What is the story of science and scientists doing the rise, rule and fall of the Third Reich?
- I read everyone from the chief jurist of the Third Reich, you know, through to Marx when I was studying politics there.
- Like you basically traced modern money from major companies, international companies back to old Third Reich money.
- And those three books are Mao the Unknown Story, The Gulag Archipelago, and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
Examples
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Many Arabs still take inspiration from the Third Reich, and Arab speech and iconography have borrowed heavily from European anti-Semitism.
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Specifically, the pan-German ideology and imperialist ambitions of the Third Reich inflamed the Sudeten conflict.
Blog text (18) -
"The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich."
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and you can feel the entire rise and fall of the Third Reich at your feet
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The German Third Reich is at the height of its power.
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The Americans were in business with the Third Reich then.
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Under the Third Reich, they had precious little room for manoeuvre.
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We all know Mr. Irving has devoted his life to the study of the Third Reich.
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During the 1930s, he covered the rise of Hitler's Third Reich and became a war correspondent when the fighting began.
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During the Third Reich, the government implemented severe restrictions on civil liberties.
Synonyms
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A period from 1933 to 1945 when Germany was ruled by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party
Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination of 'third' (ordinal) + 'Reich' (empire/state) yields a literal meaning of 'the third empire/state', so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a particular historical political entity. However, recognizing it specifically as the Nazi regime (1933–1945) requires historical/world knowledge and the proper-name, loanword status of 'Reich' means the precise referent is not fully predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
Third Reich comes from a 1920s German writer who used Third and Reich to mean a new 'empire' after two earlier German empires. Because this name was used by the Nazis, today Third Reich means the period of Nazi rule from 1933 to 1945.