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Originally Posted by bsharp8256
Reich means "empire."
The Third Reich refers to the Nazis' rule. The Second Reich was the Prussian Empire, and the first was the Holy Roman Empire.
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A better translation of reich may be "realm." It does not have any connotations of the type of government, just that it was a piece of land governed by Germans, with the type of government unspecified.
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