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: -German Empire, also called Second Reich, historical empire founded on January 18, 1871, in the wake of three short, successful wars by the North German state of Prussia.

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: -The first series is that of the three German empires: the Holy Roman Empire of the German People, which formally lasted until 1806, was considered the First Reich; the German Empire, which lasted from 1871 to 1918, was the Second Reich; while the Third Reich was the empire that the Nazis aspired to set up.