Fourth Reich
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Fourth Reich is used by neo-Nazi and Nazi mystic groups who envision a "Fourth Reich", a resurrection of the Third Reich.
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.[citation needed]
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
- The term is 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
- "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
- Cinema, simulated life, ill drama
- Fourth Reich culture, Americana
- Chained to the dream they got ya' searchin' for
- The thin line between entertainment and war
- The term is used in the song "Special Delivery" by MC Frontalot
- Are you listening, sir? Or did your mind drift
- To the next country in your axis
- To all the cool bomb drops you get to call
- Delivery fresh from the Fourth Reich to y'all
- The term is used in the song "The Prophecy" by Immortal Technique
- The year 3000 is bleak
- No happily ever after
- Just death following the
- Fourth Reich disaster
- 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.
- In the Justice Society of America comic book, Fourth Reich is the name of the new team founded by Captain Nazi. Amongst its members are a female version of Baron Blitzkrieg and a metallic man named Reichsmark, whose powers were granted by the metal used in Commander Steel.
- 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.
- The Cult of the Dead Cow declared war on the Church of Scientology in 1995 during the alt.religion.scientology controversy,[1] stating
| “ | We believe that El Ron Hubbard [sic] is actually none other than Heinrich Himmler of the SS, who fled to Argentina and is now responsible for the stealing of babies from hospitals and raising them as 'super-soldier' for the purpose of overthrowing the U.S. Fed. Govt. in a bloody revolution. We fear plans for a 'Fourth Reich' to be established on our home soil under the vise-like grip of oppression known as Scientology! | ” |
