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語源

Partial calque of German Drittes Reich (literally “third empire, third realm”). The first Reich in this reckoning is the Holy Roman Empire and the second is the German Empire. The Weimar Republic, although officially called Deutsches Reich as well, was rejected by the National Socialists and therefore not counted.

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固有名詞

the Third Reich

1. (historical) Synonym of Nazi Germany.
   • 2007, Angela Kimyongür, Women in Europe Between the Wars, Politics, Culture and Society:

     As a matter of fact, in 1937, her work appeared in Wolfgang Willrich's book The Cleansing of the Temple of Art, a Nazi tract devoted to exposing the cultural enemies of the Third Reich.

使用する際の注意点

• Reich in German does not have all of the same connotations as empire does in English. Notably, it implies neither a monarchy nor a totalitarian government.

等位語

Further reading

• Third Reich on Wikipedia.Wikipedia