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The Fourth Reich (German: Viertes Reich) is a hypothetical Nazi Reich that is the successor to Adolf Hitler's Third Reich (1933–1945). The term has been used to refer to the possible resurgence of Nazi ideas, [1] as well as pejoratively by political opponents. [2] [3]
When the Federal Republic faced neo-Nazi threats in 1951-52 – with the rise of the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) and the uncovering of the Nazi ‘Gauleiter Conspiracy’ – western newspapers actively warned of a possible ‘Fourth Reich’.
In “The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present,” historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld brings his counterfactual “what if” approach to the idea of a new empire...
In the first part of the book, Rosenfeld chronicles the emergence of the idea of the Fourth Reich within Nazi Germany—as a reaction to the Nazi dictatorship—and its evolution over the course of the Federal Republic of Germany's first decade.
In pop culture the streaming series “Hunters,” starring Al Pacino, explores the premise of American neo-Nazis in the 1970s plotting to create a Fourth Reich in America.
The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present is available now. This episode is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and Spotify.
The first comprehensive history about how the idea of a Fourth Reich - the nightmare of a Nazi return to power - has shaped postwar Western life. Probes the question of whether a Fourth Reich has been an alarmist vision unlikely to be realized, or whether it ever could have been - or still could become - a reality.
Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar...
The Fourth Reich. Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism’s revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they tell us about western political, intellec-tual, and cultural life.
In his most recent book, The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld historicizes the recurring idea of a “Fourth Reich”: in terms of anxieties about resurgent Nazism, as a loaded rhetorical metaphor, and as a pulp novel and horror movie plot.