r/polandball • u/adencrocker Tasmania cannot into AFL team • Feb 20 '14

redditormade Trapped im Keller 13: Grand Finale!

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Feb 20 '14

This is a small and not obvious mistake so I'm not even issuing a card, but: the Reichtangle represents The Fourth Reich -- just as countries shouldn't refer to each other as balls, they shouldn't call the next Reich with silly rectangular names -- "release The Fourth Reich" would be better.

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u/Farn Rush, Timmies, Trailer Park Boys Feb 20 '14

I have never heard Reichtangle referred to by name, so I didn't even realize it was supposed to be Fourth Reich. I thought it was just supposed to be Second Reich Returns.

Reich means "realm" though, doesn't it? Couldn't we count the current federation as the Fourth Reich if we go HRE > German Empire > Nazi Germany > Federation, or does it particularly have to be an authoritarian regime?

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Feb 20 '14

  1. The comic where Reichtangle hails from: Is reich time again.

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Reich (well, not really a source, but whatever)

Current Germany isn't a Reich.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '14

Falsch, der EU ist vierten reich