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Originally Posted by Leslie  Hitler's regime was the third reich. This presupposes that the roman empire, which was the first reich did indeed cease in 1870. There was some other reich in between. Some dispies I know think that the end-times antichrist will be a rejuvenation of Hitler's regime--they interpret the subtle references to Rome in the latter chapters of Revelation in that way. |
Actually, the reich refers to a
German empire, not a Roman one. The first was the Holy Roman Empire, starting in the 10th century, the Second was the German Empire begun under Bismarck and concluded at the end of WWI, and the third was Nazi Germany.