Fourth Reich

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fourth + Reich

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the Fourth Reich

  1. Hypothetical resurrection of Nazi Germany (Third Reich).
    • 2005, “Special Delivery”, in MC Frontalot (music), 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."

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