Historians differ on the dates but it held on until around 1862 when Otto von Bismarck began to unify all those bits and pieces of Germany into the German Empire, which existed from 1871 until the end of World War I.ДЄfter that came the wobbly Weimar Republic, which lasted until the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s. It was made up of bits and pieces of modern day Germany and some other European nations. The First Reich was the Holy Roman Empire put together by Charlemagne a few hundred years after the Roman Empire gasped its last breath. Hitler was nuts, but not nuts enough to make up that much history.ДЇor starters, reich is a German word for вЂњrealm.вЂќ Whether those two periods designated as theВ first and second reichs were truly highs points of German history is a matter too complicated to go into here. A bunch of people wandering around in the in the woods at night making hooting sounds to attract Bigfoot? CвЂ™monВ guys.ДЄnyway, of course there were first and second reichs. I like a lot of stuff on the History Channel, but some of it is kind of goofy.

But the Weimar Republic, according to Nazi propaganda, had dragged that glory through the mud. Lately, there have been stories on the History Channel talking about the Third Reich in Nazi Germany. He then explains what Hitler meant by the concept of the 'Third Reich' The first glorious Reich had been the medieval Holy Roman Empire the second was formed by Bismarck in 1871 after Prussia defeated France.

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