Talk:Jägermeister/Archives/2016

Reichsjagdgesetz

If this passed in 1934 as stated, I would seriously question its being an "imperial hunting law" as the German Empire ended in November, 1918. Now, I see this usage elsewhere in Wikipedia, as in calling the Deustch Reich Party of early post-WW II as the German Empire Party, and that is probably accurate in this case. However, by 1934 Hitler and the Nazis were in charge, and while he definitely referred to his rule as the Third Reich, he never declared it to be a successor to the Prussian Empire ("First Reich" in Nazi ideology) and the German Empire ("Second Reich") in a truly explicit manner beyond his numbering system, perhaps at least at first because so many senior German officers were either secret or rather open advocates of Hohenzollern restoration. "Reich" perhaps just translates poorly into English and this is in part why the term "Third Reich" rather than "Third Empire" became standard English usage for the Nazi regime. In many usages, "State" is probaly closer to the point, but this is rife in American usage with the U.S. state, which is far closer the the German Land. Anyway, it could not have truly been an "imperial hunting law" as it could have been if adopted earlier. Perhaps a quibble, but nonetheless I felt that it needed to be commented upon. 2600:1004:B15E:718B:91EA:BD55:8355:3334 (talk) 01:23, 5 June 2016 (UTC)