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The NY Times was a leading cheer leader of the Third Reich, and they are a leading cheer leader of the fourth.
Feel like it's a missed opportunity to not be referring to these guys as the Third Rich as a simple pun.
Did Hitler ever explain what the first and second reiches were? I’m guessing some kind of anthropological pseudoscience involving ice men, but maybe someone can provide a TLDR.
First: Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806
Second: German Kaiserreich 1871 to 1918
If memory serves it's Holy Roman Empire, German Empire ("Kaiserreich"), Hitler
That’s by the way why “third reich” is a really bad way to call it: Either call it “drittes Reich” (German) or “third Empire” (English), but mixing the two is just stupid.
If I had to guess this half-way nonsense is probably a result of the English not wanting to be associated with it, giving they kept talking about the “British empire“…
I know, it just doesn't feel reich.
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