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  2. Former eastern territories of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Germany went from a territory of 468,787 km 2 [4] before the 1938 annexation of Austria to 357,022 km 2 [5] after the 1990 reunification of Germany, a loss of 24%. [6] Despite its acquisition of the formerly German territory, the war also saw Poland's territory reduced by about 20% overall because of its losses in the east to the Soviets.

  3. File:Former German territories.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: The following files were used in making of this picture: Blank_map_of_Europe.svg Blank_map_of_Europe_1914.svg The purpose of this picture is to show the lost German territories, after both World War I and World War II.

  4. Territorial evolution of Germany - Wikipedia

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    At the Potsdam Conference the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union placed the German territories within the 1937 Nazi Germany borders east of the Oder–Neisse line (before Austria became part of Nazi Germany ie an "annexation" on 13 March 1938) like in the Berlin Declaration of 5 June 1945 officially abolishing Nazi Germany ...

  5. Former countries in Europe after 1815 - Wikipedia

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    The German empire was the first unified, centralized German nation, created after the North German victory in the Franco-Prussian War. It was also a colonial empire, with territories outside of Europe. Greece (Kingdom) 1832 1924 Greece, Turkey: Greece (4th of August Regime) 1936 1941 Greece, Turkey: Greece (Kingdom) 1944 1974 Greece, Turkey

  6. List of former German colonies - Wikipedia

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    Map of German Colonies in the Pacific, 1914. Brown, German New Guinea; Orange, North Solomons; Red, German Samoa; Yellow, Other Pacific Territories. These were German colonies established in the Pacific: German New Guinea, 1884–1919 Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914; Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914; German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885 ...

  7. Recovered Territories - Wikipedia

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    Map showing Poland's borders pre-1938 and post-1945. The Eastern Borderlands is in gray while the Recovered Territories are in pink.. The Recovered Territories or Regained Lands (Polish: Ziemie Odzyskane), also known as the Western Borderlands (Polish: Kresy Zachodnie), and previously as the Western and Northern Territories (Polish: Ziemie Zachodnie i Północne), Postulated Territories ...

  8. States of the German Empire - Wikipedia

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    The German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an imperial territory, the largest of which was Prussia.These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten, i.e. federal states, a name derived from the previous North German Confederation; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic) each had votes in the Bundesrat, which gave them representation at a federal level.

  9. History of German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe

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    The final agreements in effect compensated Poland for 187,000 km 2 located east of the Curzon Line with 112,000 km 2 of former German territories. The northerneastern third of East Prussia was directly annexed by the Soviet Union and remains part of Russia to this day.