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The term Fourth Reich (German: Viertes Reich) is commonly used to refer to a hypothetical successor to Adolf Hitler's Third Reich (1933–1945) and the possible resurgence of Nazi ideas. [1] It has also been used pejoratively by political opponents.
5 maj 2019 · The Fourth Reich suggests that right-wing extremists are on the brink of power, or have already attained it. Ironically, the term actually had a very different meaning. The Fourth Reich was first used as a rallying cry in the 1930s by German opponents of the Nazi regime.
This map shows the territorial expansion of Germany between 1935 and 1939, that is, before the beginning of the Second World War. The process started in 1935, when residents of the Saar region, which had been ruled under a mandate by the League of Nations since the Versailles Treaty, decided to join Germany after holding a popular referendum.
24 maj 2019 · 4th Reich With four Allied nations occupying German soil and attempting to form an agreement concerning the country’s future organization, the boundaries are still to be determined. The map dated 1947 gives the existing division into American, British, French, and Russian zones.
He shows how postwar German history might have been very different without the fear of the Fourth Reich as a mobilizing idea to combat the right-wing forces that genuinely threatened the country's democratic order.
9 sie 2019 · His new book, The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present, explores the idea of Nazi return to power and the impact the possibility of a “Fourth Reich” had on postwar Europe.
He shows how postwar German history might have been very different without the fear of the Fourth Reich as a mobilizing idea to combat the right-wing forces that genuinely threatened the country’s democratic order.