The word Reich means empire in
German. I recall reading that Hitler viewed the Holy Roman Empire as being the first Reich. He was obsessed with Otto von Bismarck (who is actually credited as the founder of the
German Empire) and the way in which he unified Germany in the 19th Century and felt that this was the Second Reich. To Hitler, his own
vision for Germany was to become the Third Reich. Thus, he had a
vision and then deemed it to be worthy of being (in his eyes) the next “Great Empire”.
Now I obviously in no way, shape or form wish for anyone to think that I view
ETC as a tyrannical dictator with a single
vision of world domination, I just that found Inaki2’s comments amusing and similar in thinking.