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[–] 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Does it even count as an empire? He had what, 5-6 years occupying parts of Europe?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago*

    I would say yes, just a very short-lived one. I'd struggle to come up with a definition of an empire that excluded Nazi Germany short of just arbitrarily imposing a minimum required lifespan. It was definitely a large, powerful, expansionist state that conquered other areas in order to subjugate them for the benefit of a metropole. The Reichskommisariats were basically intended as colonial administrations, not to mention client states like Slovakia

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