German words for empire are Imperium or Reich.
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"Reich" is the German equivalent of the English word "Empire"
Alpenkorps - German Empire - was created in 1915.
The name Third Reich refers to the state that succeeded the Holy Roman Empire of the Middle Ages and the German Empire of 1871-1918. In German, the state was known as the Deutsches Reich(German Reich) until 1943, when its official name became Großdeutsches Reich (Greater German Reich).Although empire is a very close translation of the word Reich, the two words are not perfect synonyms. An empire implies the existence of a monarchy, while a Reich does not have a monarchy. Since the words Reich and empire have slightly different definitions, historians decided to use the German word, rather than the imperfect English translation.
Nazi Germany and the Third Reich were Hitlers German empire names.
Bavarian Ersatz Division - German Empire - was created in 1914.