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Nate asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 4 years ago

What happened to the First and Second Reichs?

If Hitler was the commander of the Third Reich, what happened to the First and Second Reichs?

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  • 4 years ago
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    For more than a millennium before the century began, Central Europe had been splintered into myriad autonomous states, some of them powerful and well organized, like Saxony and Bavaria, other small or medium-sized 'Free Cities', or tiny principalities and knighthoods which consisted of little more than a castle and a modestly sized estate. These were gathered together in the so-called Holy Roman Reich of the German Nation, founded by Charlemagne (King of the Franks) in 800 and dissolved by Napoleon in 1806. This was the famous 'thousand-year Reich', which it ultimately became the Nazis' ambition to emulate.

    The second Reich was established by Otto Von Bismarck in 1871, this was dissolved in 1918 after the end of World War One. The Third Reich was created by Hitler when he came to power in 1933.

    Source(s): The Coming of the Third Reich ............................... Richard J. Evans
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    The first and second reich were what the Germans referred to as their previous empire. The first reich refers to the Holy Roman Empire. The second Reich is Germany post Bismarck until the end of World War One. The third Reich is the Nazis.

    Source(s): History buff
  • 4 years ago

    1st Reich: Roman Empire...fell. 2nd Reich: Holy Roman Empire (German) fell apart.

  • 4 years ago

    I don't know but I'm glad we got to skip the previous two if that was the case.

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  • 4 years ago

    Succeeded by the 3rd

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