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The Time-Life book series on “The Third Reich,” called “Descent Into Nightmare,” had shown what the daily life of the inhumanity brought about by the Nazis during World War II in Europe in just about every detail by the historians who authored the book series and it has been very impressive. I truly recommend it entirely for history buffs everywhere.

Common English terms for the German state in the Nazi era are “Nazi Germany” and the “Third Reich”, which Hitler and the Nazis also referred to as the “Thousand-Year Reich” (Tausendjähriges Reich). The latter, a translation of the Nazi propaganda term Drittes Reich, was first used in Das Dritte Reich, a 1923 book by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. The book counted the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806) as the first Reich and the German Empire (1871–1918) as the second.

The name “Third Reich” was widespread even contemporarily, both within and outside of Germany. However, the term was never official, with the German state’s official title remaining Deutsches Reich as per the Weimar Constitution until it became Großdeutsches Reich following the Anschluss of Austria. While the term “Third Reich” was used as a description for Germany during the time of National Socialism, it has today become a term to describe the historical era from 1933 to 1945. Brought into the Nazi jargon by Otto Strasser and Joseph Goebbels in the mid-1920s, the term was used to simultaneously provide an ideological bridge to the past and offer an alternative to the democratic Weimar system.  While the term was prominently used by the Nazi Party early in the regime’s time in power, by the late 1930s, it fell out of favour. On 13 June 1939, a circular was sent to all party offices stating that Hitler did not wish for the term “Third Reich” to be used. A similar directive was issued by the Propaganda Ministry on 10 July 1939. Author Hermann Butzer states that the reasons for this turn appear to have been twofold: on the one hand, the Nazis wanted to underline the unique role Hitler played in bringing the party to power, therefore using Moeller van den Bruck’s term seemed inappropriate. On the other hand, the intention was to portray National Socialist Germany as something historically novel; therefore the connection to the past was considered inconvenient.