Fourth Reich

Fourth Reich

English

Etymology

fourth + Reich

Proper noun

Fourth Reich

1. Hypothetical resurrection of the Third Reich.
   • 2005, MC Frontalot (music), “Special Delivery”, in Nerdcore Rising‎:

     Are you listening, sir? Or did your mind drift / to the next country in your axis, / to all the cool bomb drops you get to call: / delivery fresh from the Fourth Reich to y’all?

   • 2009, Monte Cook, “Everything's Better with Nazis”, in The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies‎, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     From their hideaways in South America, it would have been easy for the Nazis to slink away down to New Swabia and establish the Fourth Reich.

2. (historical) Nickname for Washington Heights, Manhattan, after the German immigrants there.
   • 1937, Report of the New York Public Library for 1937, page 92.

     " […] This ‘Fourth Reich’ section of the City has no decrease in the number of Central European refugees."

Coordinate terms

• First Reich
• Second Reich
• Third Reich

Translations

Hypothetical resurrection of the Third Reich

Arabic: الرَّايْخ الرَابِع‎ m (ar-rayḵ ar-rābiʿ) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: Neljäs valtakunta Georgian: მეოთხე რაიხი (meotxe raixi) German: Viertes Reich Japanese: 第四帝国 (Daiyon teikoku), ドイツ第四帝国 (Doitsu daiyon teikoku), ナチス第四帝国 (Nachisu daiyon teikoku) Norwegian: Bokmål: please add this translation if you can Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can Russian: Четвёртый рейх m (Četvjórtyj rejx) Slovene: Četrti Rajh m Swedish: Fjärde riket n