The "Third Reich" was a …

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The term "Third Reich" refers to the National Socialist dictatorship from 1933 to 1945. Germany had been a democracy in the Weimar Republic and a monarchy until 1918. A council republic existed only briefly in Bavaria and Munich in 1919.

Third Reich = Nazi dictatorship from 1933 to 1945.

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