Fourth Reich
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Fourth Reich is used by neo-Nazi and Nazi mystic groups who believe or hope that a "Fourth Reich", a resurrection of the Third Reich, will one day be established. The more secular neo-Nazis believe it will be established through political means.
Sometimes it is also a rhetorical device that non-Nazis use to denounce their political opponents. The term is intended to convey the idea that these opponents are, in at least some degree, the ideological descendants of the Third Reich led by Adolf Hitler. Humorist Mort Sahl wrote of his association with Jim Garrison, commenting that Garrison referred to the government in Washington, D.C., as the Fourth Reich.
The term is sometimes used by Eurosceptics to refer to what they consider the worst excesses of the European Union, often referring to the fact that not a single politician with any real power or bureaucrat in Brussels was ever elected.
Some Neo-Nazis envisage the establishment of a Super Fourth Reich called the "Western Imperium" that would embrace all areas of the world inhabited by people of European ancestry (see under "Neo-Nazi" heading in the Aryan Race article).
[edit] Popular culture
- 4th Reich is a song by the Prog-Power Metal Band Stratovarius.
- The term is in the song "No Shelter" by Rage Against The Machine, in the lines
- Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
- Fourth Reich culture, Americana
- The term is also used in the song "The Prophecy" by Immortal Technique in the lines
- The year 3000 is bleak
- no happily ever after
- just death following the
- Fourth reich disaster
- The term is also used in the song "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" by the Dead Kennedys
- You still think swastikas look cool
- The real nazis run your schools
- They're coaches, businessmen and cops
- In a real fourth reich you'll be the first to go
- The term was used in Episode 3-09, Super Mann, of Lois & Clark where members of the German Nazi Party come back to life from suspended animation to take over America.
- "Fourth Reich Motors" was also the name of a German car manufacturer in the Mr. Plow episode of The Simpsons who Lisa learns used live people as crash test dummies.
- The John J. Rust science fiction novel "Epsilon" features a Neo-Nazi who uses an alien battlesuit to try to create a Fourth Reich.
- In the Clive Cussler book, Atlantis Found, the antagonists are the descendants of Adolf Hitler who call their plan the Fourth Reich.
