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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (8 children)
[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Does it even count as an empire? He had what, 5-6 years occupying parts of Europe?

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 20 points 2 days ago

I would say yes, just a very short-lived one. I'd struggle to come up with a definition of an empire that excluded Nazi Germany short of just arbitrarily imposing a minimum required lifespan. It was definitely a large, powerful, expansionist state that conquered other areas in order to subjugate them for the benefit of a metropole. The Reichskommisariats were basically intended as colonial administrations, not to mention client states like Slovakia

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