And as we go into the 30s, the National Socialist Party is actually able to get reasonable representation in the German parliament. And in 1933, the president of Germany gives, appoints Hitler to be chancellor which is equivalent of being prime minister despite the Nazis not having a majority in parliament. This is the official beginning of what the Nazis will call the Third Reich. Reich translates as realm. They considered the First Reich to be the Holy Roman Empire. They refer to the Second Reich as the German Empire after the Holy Roman Empire, up and through World War I. They don't consider the Weimar Republic, which they hate, the Third Reich.