When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he declared his new regime to be The Third Reich and that it would last 1,000 years.

It turned out he was off by 988 years.

The big question for many people outside of Germany was and still is, if that was the third Reich, what were the first two Reichs?

..and for non-German speakers, what exactly is a Reich?

Learn more about the first and second Reichs and what exactly they were on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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Das Dritte Reich

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