Greater German Reich

Greater German Reich (German: Grossdeutsches Reich) may refer to:

  • Nazi Germany, the official state name of which was "Greater German Reich" from 1943 to 1945 (also used informally after the 1938 Anschluss of Austria)
  • Greater Germany, the political concept of creating a German nation-state encompassing all or nearly all the German-speaking peoples of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Greater Germanic Reich

Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or german:

    I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Some of us prefer Austrian voices risen in song to ugly German threats.
    Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)