Labels:book | brass | person OCR: The word Reich German for empire traditionally used to designate the great empires of German history The First Reich refers to the Hoiy Roman Empire, created by the Germanic descendants of Charlemagne in 962 The Second Reich was the German state created by the Prussian Hohenzollern dynasty 1871 and overthrown in 1918 after War 1 The Nazis referred to their government as part of progression of Reichs in order to legitimatize their regime and associate it with a glorious German past in particular, they used the fact that the Holy Roman Empire had once controlled almost all of Europe justify their intention conquer and subjugate the whole continent. Chariemagne Seconc Germar Iegitimatize
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