Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Ignoring all the Nazi balls going on.
Reich: Meaning 'realm' or 'empire'
Das: Meaning 'the'
There were two reichs before the rather terrible third.
I think it is fair to say that 'Das Reich' is almost always associated with the Nazi's and not just because of the SS division. The first reich was the holy roman empire, the second rose form unification under Wilhelm I, however Hitler sort to rewrite history and didn't even want to acknowledge the 2nd Reich as period in German history so didn't want to be known as the 3rd Reich, he wanted to be known as 'The' or 'Greater' hence Das Reich .