!!!Deutsches Reich

Deutsches Reich: official name of the German state 1871-1945 (English: 
1871-1933 German Empire, 1933-1945 (Third) German Reich), founded in 
1871 with the incorporation of the member states of the  Deutscher 
Bund. In 1879 it formed the Dual Alliance with Austria and fought in 
World War II together with the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In 1918 the 
German Empire was made a republic (Weimar Republic), but in 1933 it 
was turned into the National-Socialist Fuehrer State, and called 
"Grossdeutsches Reich" (Great German Reich) after the annexation of 
Austria in 1938. The Federal Republic of Germany, created out of the 
three zones occupied by the Western Forces on May 24, 1949, partly 
continued the tradition of the German Empire, while the German 
Democratic Republic (October 7, 1949 to 1990), successor state to the 
zone occupied by the Soviets, considered itself a state that had 
broken with all German traditions, although it increasingly adopted 
Prussian characteristics.


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