1st, 2nd, and 3rd reich???

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if hitler was the 3rd reich, then who was the 1st and 2nd???

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Ist Reich - Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne
2nd Reich - Imperial Germany from start of Franco-Prussian War to end of WW1.

HTH,

Chris

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Chris,

I’m glad you provided an answer for Jordan.

Richard

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thx, i was curious, someone in my history class suggested that italy was the first and japan was the second, but i didnt think so.

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Some think Charlemagne was French. He was actually Frankish. They were subdivided into two tribes one became the French and the other was on the east side of the Rhine and became Germans (lots of water under that bridge). He is known as Carl “The Great.”

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I have wondered about that for years thanks

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uh…???..??? lol you lost me, say what now?

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I copied this from “The Columbia Encyclopedia” online: http://www.bartleby.com/65/fr/Franks.html

By the 3rd century A.D., the Franks were settled along the lower and middle Rhine. The two major divisions were the Salian Franks in the north and the Ripuarian Franks in the south. The two groups expanded independently, although they sometimes united against a common enemy. The Salian Franks became allies of the Roman Empire late in the 4th cent. In the following century they moved southward into Gaul, and under their leader Clovis I they overthrew (486) the Romans. Clovis permanently united the Salian and Ripuarian Franks, accepted Roman Catholicism, and founded the Frankish empire. Clovis began the Merovingian Dynasty followed by the Carolingian Dynasty 752-911. Charlemagne inherited the Frankish crown in 768 and crowned Holy Roman Emperor 800 AD. Charlemagne was the greatest Frankish ruler. His empire was partitioned in 843, by the Treaty of Verdun, and again in 870 by the Treaty of Mersen. From these partitions developed the kingdom of the West Franks, who merged with the far more numerous Gallo-Roman population of Gaul and became France; and the kingdom of the East Franks, who retained their Germanic speech and became Germany. Both France and the region of Franconia in Germany derive their names from the Franks.

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Isn’t European history freaking great??!! I love it![:D]