{"id":1456,"date":"2009-06-18T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T07:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2009-06-18T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T07:25:16","slug":"when-were-the-first-second-reichs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"When were the First &#038; Second Reichs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even today, there are constant references in the media to Nazi Germany, otherwise known as the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler boasted that his Reich would last for a thousand years but, in fact, it only lasted for 12 years (1933-1945).<br \/>\nBut, if this was the Third Reich, when were the First and Second Reichs?<br \/>\nIn fact, the First Reich is the title retrospectively given to the Holy Roman Empire of which modern-day Germany was only one part. This lasted from the beginning of the 9th century to beyond the middle of the 19th century &#8211; almost a thousand years (and presumably the inspiration for Hitler&#8217;s vain boast).<br \/>\nThe Second Reich (also known as The German Empire) is the term given to the period from the formation of modern-day Germany by Otto von Bismark to the end of the First World War &#8211; the period from 1871 to 1919 (the Weimar Republic of 1919-1933 is not called a reich).<br \/>\nFurther information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answerbag.com\/q_view\/4009\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even today, there are constant references in the media to Nazi Germany, otherwise known as the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler boasted that his Reich would last for a thousand years but, in fact, it only lasted for 12 years (1933-1945). But, if this was the Third Reich, when were the First and Second Reichs? In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}