German Reich: Official name for the German nation state from 1871 to 1945, and name of Germany until 1949
German Reich (German: Deutsches Reich) was the official name for Germany from 1871 to 1945.
The history of Germany during the time of the German Reich is usually broken into three parts:
- the German Empire (1871–1918)
- the republic informally called the Weimar Republic (1918–33)
- the National Socialist state commonly known as the Third Reich or Nazi Germany (1933–45)
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