Reichsfeinde
() was a pejorative term used for groups which were in political opposition to the system of the German Reich during the tenure of Otto von Bismarck as chancellor of Germany and during the Nazi Germany, Nazi regime. Under Bismarck, the term was mainly employed against Catholic Church, Catholics and History of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democrats to justify their political suppression. The Nazis added the Jews, Jewish people to this list of enemies and violently pursued their destruction for being "non-German". Imperial Germany The German Empire was founded in 1871 after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War, with France, as a result, being perceived as the main foreign enemy of the new ''Reich''. The external enemy of France was contrasted with the internal ''Reichsfeinde'': Any societal or political forces that did not want to conform to the Protestant nation-state. Besides Catholics and the Labour movement, this also included national minorities ...
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