German Reich

German Reich (

German Reich Media

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  Deutsches Reichcode: de is deprecated , 1893 map

German: [Deutsches Reich] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)) 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)