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To: RobbyS

Funny you should mention that, but on my 3 or 4 greats grandfather Etienne, the 1st to come to the US on his country of origin it say Empire of the Germans.


97 posted on 08/26/2007 6:57:10 PM PDT by Aruchu (There is no I in team, but there is a M and an E.)
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To: Aruchu

Well, until 1803, it was “Reich” In English, The Empire. In 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War, the king of Prussia assumed the title Kaiser and it is the Empire of the Germans. So we have a second Reich. There was another Reich, of course, that of the Austrians. Hitler aimed at unification of the German lands. a restoration of the First Reich, a Third Reich. One reason why the Western Powers were so willing to let Hitler have the Sudetenland was that it, like Austria, was German.


112 posted on 08/26/2007 7:46:09 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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