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Originally Posted by Johny Traffic
empire = a group of countries under common leadership and run as a single organization
Thats exactly what the Third Reich tried to do and did succeed in doing to some extent. Ask the countries that were occupied by the Germans.
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An empire comprises a set of regions locally ruled by governors, viceroys or client kings in the name of an emperor. By extension, one could classify as an empire any large, multi-ethnic state ruled from a single center. Like other states, an empire maintains its political structure at least partly by coercion. Land-based empires (such as Russia or Achaemenid Persia) tend to extend in a contiguous area; sea-borne empires, also known as thalassocracies (the Athenian and British empires provide examples), may feature looser structures and more scattered territories.
Third Reich wasnt an empire. Hitler had a vision to make a big German empire in Europe but he failed.
BTW, Hitler wasn't an emperror either.