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6 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH

The Second Reich was created by Prince Otto von Bismarck, who as
premier of Prus sia defeated Napoleon III in 1871 and became the “Iron
Chancellor” over about three hundred independent states. Bismarck’s
reich, toward the end headed by Kaiser Wilhelm II, lasted until 1918 and
ended with the defeat of the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-
Hungary in World War I.
With Adolf Hitler’s ascension to power in 1933, he proclaimed Greater
Germany as the Th ird Reich, Reich being the German word for “empire.”
Interestingly enough, when used with a lowercase “r,” the word reich means
“rich” or “wealthy.” A Reich, therefore, could mean “an empire of the
wealthy.”
The term “Nazi” stems from the acronym of “National Socialism.” Th is
was derived by combining the first syllable of “NAtional” and the second
syllable of “soZIalist” in the name Nationalosozialistiche Deutsche Ar-
beiterpartei, the National Socialist German Workers Party. This was the
small radical political party Hitler built into a fascist system that threat-
ened the entire world. Nazism is a philosophy. One recent dictionary de-
fines a Nazi as a person “holding extreme racist or authoritarian views or
behaving brutally” or anyone “belonging to any organization similar to
the Nazis.”
One edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Lan-

guage defined fascism as “a philosophy or system of government that advo-
cates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the
merging of state and business leadership together with an ideology of bel-
ligerent nationalism.” Always remember that a typical attribute of fascism
is the merging of state and business leadership.
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is credited with coining the word
“fascism,” a name taken from his fascist Black Shirts called Fascisti. Th is
term derived from the ancient Roman symbol of the fasces, a bundle of
rods with a protruding axe blade. It was the symbol of central authority.
Under fascism, the individual is subordinate to the state, usually headed
by a single leader.
However, even Mussolini pointed out that “The first stage of fascism
should more appropriately be called corporatism, because it is the merger