USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Common English terms for the German state in the Nazi era are “Nazi Germany” and the “Third Reich", which Hitler and the Nazis also referred to as the “Thousand-Year Reich” (Tausendjähriges Reich).

Detailed explanation-2: -Reich, (German: “Empire”), any of the empires of the Germans or Germany: the Holy Roman Empire (q.v.); the Second Reich, led by the Prussian Hohenzollerns (1871–1918); or the Third Reich of Nazi Germany (1933–45). See Germany.

Detailed explanation-3: -Third Reich, official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945, as the presumed successor of the medieval and early modern Holy Roman Empire of 800 to 1806 (the First Reich) and the German Empire of 1871 to 1918 (the Second Reich).

Detailed explanation-4: -Reich has thus not been used in official terminology since 1945, though it is still found in the name of the Reichstag building, which since 1999 has housed the German federal parliament, the Bundestag.