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My key board doesn't have that ugly "B" found on the failed side of the Germanic language family (
) but I would still like to discuss Nazi era Greater Germany. That is those territories claimed by Nazi Germany as part of the Greater German Empire. Here is a map:
As you can see Nazi occupied Poland is part of it (Sorry, Polish frog King) as is Slovenia along with (as one might expect) Austria, Alice-Lorraine, Schleswig-Holstein, the Sudetenland, and slavic Czechia (which like Slovenia had been under Austrian rule for hundreds of years). I think we can agree that Prussia, Alice-Lorraine, Austria, Schleswig-Holstein, and the Sudetenland were ethnic German while the others were not. Czechia and Slovenia were not ethnic German but had long been under German control while the Warsaw mandate Poland had not. I'm not sure about the ethnic make up of Memel, at the time, but I'm sure Saras will in inform us.
Sadly, the tiny Slovenian coast had been given to Italy since Germany did not have a Mediterranean naval force.
Interestingly, in the 19th century Kleindeutsche Lösung (lesser German solution) meant a Germany without Austria while Großdeutsche Lösung (Greater German solution) meant a Germany with Austria and the Nazis played on this old 19th century idea of Austria being part of Greater Germany. My question is how justified was Germany to want to unify all ethnic Germans, also was it reasonable to want to unify those areas which were long under German control (both ethic German as well as Slovene and Czech), and what do you think about those areas which were not long under German control (western Poland and possibly Memel [memel used to be part of Germany but I don't know the ethnic make up of memel at the time])? Which parts are/were justified and which parts are/were not?
) but I would still like to discuss Nazi era Greater Germany. That is those territories claimed by Nazi Germany as part of the Greater German Empire. Here is a map:
As you can see Nazi occupied Poland is part of it (Sorry, Polish frog King) as is Slovenia along with (as one might expect) Austria, Alice-Lorraine, Schleswig-Holstein, the Sudetenland, and slavic Czechia (which like Slovenia had been under Austrian rule for hundreds of years). I think we can agree that Prussia, Alice-Lorraine, Austria, Schleswig-Holstein, and the Sudetenland were ethnic German while the others were not. Czechia and Slovenia were not ethnic German but had long been under German control while the Warsaw mandate Poland had not. I'm not sure about the ethnic make up of Memel, at the time, but I'm sure Saras will in inform us.
Sadly, the tiny Slovenian coast had been given to Italy since Germany did not have a Mediterranean naval force.
Interestingly, in the 19th century Kleindeutsche Lösung (lesser German solution) meant a Germany without Austria while Großdeutsche Lösung (Greater German solution) meant a Germany with Austria and the Nazis played on this old 19th century idea of Austria being part of Greater Germany. My question is how justified was Germany to want to unify all ethnic Germans, also was it reasonable to want to unify those areas which were long under German control (both ethic German as well as Slovene and Czech), and what do you think about those areas which were not long under German control (western Poland and possibly Memel [memel used to be part of Germany but I don't know the ethnic make up of memel at the time])? Which parts are/were justified and which parts are/were not?
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