"Fears of a Fourth Reich" Topic

"Although Hitler's Third Reich collapsed almost 75 years ago, its successor – the Fourth Reich – is alive and well. That, at least, is the claim of some European and US journalists, politicians and other activists, who, in recent years, have used the phrase to attack opponents.

In the last decade, Greek leftists and Russian nationalists have accused the German Chancellor Angela Merkel of using the EU to impose a German-dominated Fourth Reich on Europe. Arab critics have accused the Israeli government of acting like a Fourth Reich, following its military actions in Gaza and Lebanon. And left-wing activists in the US have charged Donald Trump with trying to establish a Fourth Reich in America.

The spread of the Fourth Reich as a polemical slur is more than merely the latest example of a wired world's casual use of inflationary and defamatory rhetoric. As a historical concept, the Fourth Reich has a complicated history, with important lessons for how we conduct political discourse…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Well, it is alive today in such places as china, north korea, iran, to name a few.

Nothing says fourth reich quite like seeing a nation's soldiers goose stepping. Why would any military use goose stepping; don't they know it makes them look like nazis?

Traidition…? (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

You'd think they'd be on a fifth or sixth Reich by now… ;-)

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

It's classified …