No doubt many of the citizens of the Third Reich had conceived their anti-Semitism as an `` innocent '' dislike of Jews, as do others like them today.

In World War II the Third Reich invaded the Alpine countries, with the exception of Switzerland and Lichtenstein ; Adolf Hitler kept a base of operation in the Bavarian Alps throughout the war.

By 1940 the Third Reich had occupied many of the Alpine countries.

Austria underwent a political coup that made it part of the Third Reich ; France had been invaded and Italy was a fascist regime.

The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich.

* 1940 – World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.

* 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.

Auschwitz concentration camp ( ) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

The SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-TV ) was the SS organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps for the Third Reich.

First documented in the 13th century, Berlin was the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1701 – 1918 ), the German Empire ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ) and the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ).

* Nicholas Ridley compares the EU to the Third Reich in an interview in The Spectator magazine ( 1990 )

Another relatively early use of the term in a German-language work was in a book by Fritz Sternberg, a Jewish Marxist political economist who was a refugee from the Third Reich.

Some historians were prepared to go even further, claiming that blitzkrieg was not merely an operational doctrine of the German armed forces but a strategic concept on which the leadership of the Third Reich based its strategic and economic planning.

Those who made the Third Reich ’ s military plans and organized its war economy appear rarely, if ever, to have employed the term blitzkrieg in official documents.

The thesis that the Third Reich went to war on the basis of " blitzkrieg economics " was criticized by Richard Overy in the 1980s and Historian George Raudzens highlighted the many, somewhat conflicting, senses in which historians have used the word.

The notion that the Third Reich developed a blitzkrieg strategy to achieve its total aims has been widely attacked.

Adolf Hitler's correspondence with his economists also reveals that his intent was to wage war in 1943 – 1945 when the resources of central Europe had been absorbed into the Third Reich.

( 2005 ) The German Way in War: From the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich, University of Kansa Press.

War and economy in the Third Reich.

* The Residents parodied the song on their Third Reich & Roll album.

Scholars have debated how Christian antisemitism may have played a role in the Nazi Third Reich, World War II and the Holocaust.

Dress daggers were used by several other countries as well, including Japan but never to the same extent as those worn by the Military and Political bodies of the Third Reich or Fascist Italy.

The Italian works included the notorious but comparatively tame SS Experiment Camp and the far more graphic Last Orgy of the Third Reich ( Italian: L ' ultima orgia del III Reich ).

Historian of fascism Stanley Payne has said about Saddam Hussein's regime: " There will probably never again be a reproduction of the Third Reich, but Saddam Hussein has come closer than any other dictator since 1945 ".

Image: Escalinata de entrada del Park Güell. jpg | Third fountain at the entrance with the dragon

Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant | Qinshan Phase III Units 1 & 2, located in Zhejiang China ( 30. 436 N 120. 958 E ): Two CANDU 6 reactors, designed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited ( AECL ), owned and operated by the Third Qinshan Nuclear Power Company Limited

King Richard I | Richard ( l ) and Philip Augustus | Philip II at Acre, Israel | Acre during the Third Crusade

The main target of the prosecution was Hermann Göring ( at the left edge on the first row of benches ), considered to be the most important surviving official in the Third Reich | Third Reich after Adolf Hitler | Hitler's death.

From left to right: Top row-Archimedes, Aristotle, Alhazen | Ibn al-Haytham, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ; Second row-Isaac Newton, James Hutton, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel ; Third row-Louis Pasteur, James Clerk Maxwell, Henri Poincaré, Sigmund Freud, Nikola Tesla, Max Planck ; Fourth row-Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Enrico Fermi ; Bottom row-J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, E. O. Wilson, Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking

( portrait of the Malebolge # The Ten Bolgias | Third Bolgia of the Eighth Circle of Hell )

The Mud Hens playing at Fifth Third Field ( Toledo ) | Fifth Third Field on June 8, 2007.

The Mud Hens playing at Fifth Third Field ( Toledo ) | Fifth Third Field on July 23, 2006.

Image: christs-college-third-court. jpg | Third Court: Chancellor's Building-Y Block on L, Stevenson Building on R

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A shocked Mandarin ( bureaucrat ) | mandarin in Manchu people | Manchu robe in the back, with Queen Victoria ( British Empire ), Wilhelm II of Germany | Wilhelm II ( German Empire ), Nicholas II of Russia | Nicholas II ( Russian Empire | Imperial Russia ), Marianne ( French Third Republic ), and a samurai ( Empire of Japan ) stabbing into a king cake with Chine (" China " in French ) written on it.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

The trading policies of the Third Reich aimed at discouraging trade with countries outside the German sphere of influence, while making southern Europe largely dependent on Germany.

Inevitably, both the Bomber B and Amerika Bomber programs were victims of the continued emphasis of the Wehrmacht's insistence for the Luftwaffe to support the Army as its primary mission, as well as the increasingly devastating results of the RAF Bomber Command at night, and by 1943 the USAAF's Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces ' heavy bomber raids by daylight on the German aviation industry, which catastrophically diminished the Third Reich's overall aviation production capacity later in World War II.

The Third Reich between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History, 1918 – 1945 ( 2001 ) online edition

During the German occupation of 1939 – 1945, Poznań was incorporated into the Third Reich as the capital of Reichsgau Wartheland.

Deutsches Reich remained the official name of Germany until 1945, although these years saw three very different political systems more commonly referred to in English as: " the German Empire " ( 1871 – 1918 ), the Weimar Republic ( 1919 – 1933 ; this term is a pre-World War II coinage not used at the time ), and Nazi Germany ( the Third Reich ) ( 1933 – 1945 ).

The exception is that during the Cold War, the East German railway incongruously continued to use the name Deutsche Reichsbahn ( German National Railways ), which had been the name of the national railway during the era of the Weimar Republic and Third Reich.

In the German version of the game, it avoids making direct reference to Nazi Party and the " Third Reich ", in order to comply with strict laws in Germany.

The Swiss press vigorously criticized the Third Reich, often infuriating German leaders.

During the 1930s, IBM's German subsidiary was its most profitable foreign operation, and a 2001 book, IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black, argues that Watson's pursuit of profit led him to personally approve and spearhead IBM's strategic technological relationship with the Third Reich.

Geoff Taylor's 1966 novel, Court Of Honor, features the Fehme being revived by a German officer and Martin Bormann ( a featured character in other semi-historical novels with post-war ' Nazi underground ' themes ) in the dying days of the Third Reich.

* Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) resulted in the collapse of the Second French Empire and in the formation of both the French Third Republic and the German Empire.

* April 24 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German Reichsphysician ( S. S. and Police ) in the Third Reich ( b. 1899 )

Remarque was a German who had fought in the war at age eighteen and been wounded in the Third Battle of Ypres.

Originally patented in the German Empire, Gassner also received patents from Austria – Hungary, Belgium, the French Third Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( all in 1886 ) and the United States ( in 1887 ).

* Third Council of Tours: Priests are ordered to preach in the vernacular ( either Vulgar Latin or German ).

Also another suspension of disbelief is having an episode of a TV show ( or a movie ) set in a foreign country and have all the actors portraying citizens of said country speak another language entirely and fluently ( example: a setting in Germany during the Third Reich where people dressed as German citizens and German officers speak fluent English ).

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Austria, which had emerged as the Austrian Empire became part of the German Confederation till the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire which collapsed at the end of World War I. Austria was briefly independent ( First Republic ) till annexation by the German Third Reich, partitioned after the Second World War and then became the independent sovereign state ( Second Republic ) that has existed to the present day.