The blAAtschApen wrote:Novus America wrote:
The first Reich mostly was, despite the odd name and some non German speaking territories.
It was officially the “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation” from the 1500s onwards as well.
' some non german territory ' does include roughly the modern day Czech Republic area.
Quite a bit, if you ask me.
The majority of the population was German though, and German was in the name at some point.
So you can still say it was German.
I mean Russia has several non ethic Russian areas, but is still Russian (mostly).
And the 3rd Reich/Nazi Empire also include the Czech area as well.
Although of course it did do genocide and forced Germanization to a MUCH higher degree than the First or Second did, obviously,