Fourth Reich

The Fourth Reich (German: Viertes Reich) is a theoretical future successor of the Third Reich.

Neo-Nazism

Map of Germany in 1937

In terms of neo-Nazism, the Fourth Reich is envisioned as featuring Aryan supremacy, anti-Semitism, Lebensraum, aggressive militarism and totalitarianism. Upon the establishment of the Fourth Reich, German neo-Nazis propose that Germany should acquire nuclear weapons and use the threat of their use to re-expand to Germany's former boundaries as of 1937.^[1]

Based on pamphlets published by David Myatt in the early 1990s,^[2] many neo-Nazis came to believe that the rise of the Fourth Reich in Germany would pave the way for the establishment of the Western Imperium, a pan-Aryan world empire encompassing all land populated by predominantly European-descended peoples (i.e., Europe, Russia, Anglo-America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Southern South America, and other significantly white countries in Latin America).^[3]

Jim Marrs

In his 2008 book, The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America, Jim Marrs argues that some surviving members of Germany's Third Reich, along with sympathizers in the United States and elsewhere, given safe haven by organizations such as ODESSA and Die Spinne, have been working behind the scenes since the end of World War II to enact at least some of the principles of Nazism (e.g. militarism, fascism, conquest, widespread spying on citizens, use of corporations and propaganda to control national interests and ideas) into culture, government, and business worldwide, but primarily in the United States. He cites the influence of Nazis brought into the United States at the end of World War II, such as Nazi scientists brought in under Operation Paperclip to help advance aerospace in the U.S., and the acquisition and creation of conglomerates by Nazis and their sympathizers after the war, in both Europe and the United States.

German influence in the European Union

During the Eurozone Crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed for Germany to have a greater say in the domestic governance of the euro zone’s 17 members, as part of a deal which saw Germany provide a significant part of the Euro Bailout program. Among other measures meant to reduce the likelihood of another Euro Crises, she has called for real European power over countries’ budgets. In Poland, Former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has suggested in a book that "Germany wants to annex part of Poland".^[4]

British journalist Simon Heffer wrote in 2011 "Where Hitler failed by military means to conquer Europe, modern Germans are succeeding through trade and financial discipline. Welcome to the Fourth Reich."^[5]

See also

• Neo-Nazism
• Neo-Ottomanism
• Neo-Sovietism
• European Union
• Third Rome

References

Bibliography

• Infield, Glenn. Secrets of the SS (Stein and Day, New York, 1981) ISBN 0-8128-2790-2
• Schultz, Sigrid. Germany Will Try It Again (Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1944)
• Tetens, T.H. The New Germany and the Old Nazis (Random House, New York, 1961) LCN 61-7240
• Wechsberg, Joseph. The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs (Mc Graw Hill, New York, 1967) LCN 67-13204
• Marrs, Jim (2008). The Rise of the Fourth Reich. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 9780061245589. 

v t e German Reichs First (Holy Roman Empire), 962–1806 Second (German Empire), 1871–1918 Third (Nazi Germany), 1933–1945 Fourth (hypothetical)