- The German Empire (German: Deutsches Reich), also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 7:7 KJV