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Third Reich Hitler wanted to call the new German Reich.
Admiral Karl Donitz
In 1938, Germany annexed Austria, and incorporated the country into the German Reich. German Reich was the official name of Germany from 1871 to 1943.
The third reich. It was because he wanted to stay in Germany's footsteps in calling the empires.
In German it was called Das Dritte Reich (or without an article Drittes Reich). Later it was also called Grossdeutschland (Greater Germany) or Grossdeutsches Reich. Incidentally, historians leave the word Reichuntranslated in English.