Third Reich

The Third Reich was sometimes also referred to as the "Thousand Year Reich", as it was intended by its founder, Adolf Hitler, to stand for one thousand years.

The Nazi Party attempted to combine
traditional symbols of Germany
with Nazi Party symbols in an
effort to reinforce the perception of
them as being one and the same

Thus the Nazi Party used the terms "Third Reich" and "Thousand Year Reich" to connect the allegedly glorious past to its supposedly glorious future.

Initially Hitler's plans seemed to be well on their way to fruition. At its height, the Third Reich controlled the greater part of Europe. However, due to the defeat by the Allied powers in World War II, the Thousand Year Reich in fact lasted only 12 years (from 1933 through to 1945).

• General Government

See also: millennialism.

External links

• Axis History Factbook - Third Reich

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