Third Reich

The Third Reich is a semi-anglification of "Der Dritte Reich", the term used to describe the Nazi regime in Germany. Sometimes also referred to as the Thousand Year Reich, as it was intend by its founder, Adolf Hitler, to stand for 1000 years.

Hitler very self-consciously tried to align his movement with great successes of the past which would resonate within the German people, and he definitely intended that his creation would bring his name and image to the whole world for 1000 years, so both terms were used repeatedly to build this sense of history, strength and inevitability in the minds of all Germans.