Goebbels was one of the most enthusiastic proponents of aggressively pursuing Germany's territorial claims sooner rather than later, along with Himmler and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop.

As the American historian Gerhard Weinberg noted, German demands for territorial revision went beyond merely regaining land lost under the Treaty of Versailles, and instead embraced calls for the German conquest and colonization of all Eastern Europe, regardless of whether the land in question had belonged to Germany before 1918 or not Likewise, the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper argued that the goal of overthrowing Versailles was only a prelude to seizing Lebensraum in Eastern Europe for Germany with no regard as to where Germany's 1914 frontiers had been.

In front of the islands are Germany's territorial waters, which occupy a much larger area than the islands themselves.

A new period of economic stagnation began with the territorial changes in central Europe after Germany's defeat in World War I.

Germany's territorial losses 1919 – 1945

Thus, military and territorial expansion was Germany's key to making itself a major player in the international arena of power.

Dr. Józef Retinger who was Sikorski's special political advisor at the time was also in agreement with Sikorski's concept of Poland's realigned post-war borders, later in his memoirs Retinger wrote ; " At the Tehran Conference, in November 1943, the Big Three agreed that Poland should receive territorial compensation in the West, at Germany's expense, for the land it was to lose to Russia in Central and Eastern Europe.

In June 1919, Goerdeler submitted a memorandum to his superior, General Otto von Below, calling for the destruction of Poland as the only way of preventing territorial losses on Germany's eastern borders.

The National Democracy's main stronghold was Greater Poland ( western Poland ), where much of the movement's early impetus derived from efforts to counter Imperial Germany's policy of Germanizing its Polish territorial holdings.

Another of the treaty's important terms was Germany's confirmation of the internationally recognized border with Poland and Russia, and other territorial changes that Germany had undergone since 1945, preventing any future claims to lost territory east of the Oder-Neisse line ( see also former German territories east of the Oder-Neisse line ) which had belonged to Germany before 1937.

It was Nazi Germany's last territorial gain prior to World War II.

* Drang nach Osten — " Push to the East ", Germany's ambitions for territorial expansion into Eastern Europe.

Germany's territorial losses after World War II highlighted in green and yellow

* New Order ( Nazism ) ( Neuordnung ), Nazi Germany's political and territorial goal in the 1940s

In Hillgruber's opinion, after the war had begun, a split occurred within the German leadership between the moderate imperialism of the Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, who wished for territorial gains if they could be obtained, but was prepared to settle for a peace based on the pre-1914 status quo, and a more radical group centered around General Erich Ludendorff and the rest of the Third Supreme Command who wanted total victory over all of Germany's enemies, no matter what the cost, and very wide-ranging annexations in Europe, Asia and Africa.

The weapons strapped to the Goose represent the rearmament rally which rapidly increased Germany's armed forces and there is a map of Europe strapped to his waist, showing his territorial ambitions.

The Nazi government that led Germany into World War II appears to have had the support of the majority of Germans, and this view holds that it was not until much later, after Germany's losses began to mount, that support for Hitler began to fade.

Generally these involved increasing the Panzer IV's armor protection or upgrading its weapons, although during the last months of the war with Germany's pressing need for rapid replacement of losses, design changes also included retrograde measures to simplify and speed manufacture.

Chamberlain, paralyzed and despondent after Germany's losses in World War I, wrote to Hitler after his first visit in 1923:

His results as Germany's coach were 10 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses, the worst managerial performance of all time for a coach of the German national team.

However, this model of constitutional monarchy was discredited and abolished following Germany's defeat in the First World War.

To further highlight the difference between a problem and an instance, consider the following instance of the decision version of the traveling salesman problem: Is there a route of at most 2000 kilometres in length passing through all of Germany's 15 largest cities?

The weakness of Germany's strategic position was exacerbated by the rapid collapse of the other Central Powers in late 1918, following Allied victories on the Macedonian and Italian fronts.

In the 1924 national election, the Munich cultural journal Süddeutsche Monatshefte published a series of articles blaming the SPD and trade unions for Germany's defeat in World War I, which came out during the trial of Adolf Hitler and Ludendorff for high treason following the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.

He had learned of Germany's defeat while being treated for temporary blindness following a gas attack on the front.

The entry of the United States into the war – following Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare – marked a decisive turning-point against Germany.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.

Riefenstahl ’ s prominence in the Third Reich, along with her personal association with Adolf Hitler, destroyed her film career following Germany's defeat in World War II, after which she was arrested but released without any charges.

In the following decades, Luxembourg fell further into Germany's sphere of influence, particularly after the creation of a separate ruling house in 1890.

In February 1941, Beria became Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and in June, following Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, he became a member of the State Defense Committee ( GKO ).

Operation Sea Lion () was Nazi Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during the Second World War following the Fall of France.

On 16 July 1940, following Germany's swift and successful occupation of France and the Low Countries and growing impatient with Britain's outright rejection towards his recent peace overtures, Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 16, setting in motion preparations for a landing in Britain.

Italy initially opposes Germany's aims on Austria but the two countries resolve their differences in 1936 in the aftermath of Italy's diplomatic isolation following the start of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

** WWII: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.

By way of example, and following Germany's decision after the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) to extract reparations to facilitate a move to the gold standard, Japan gained the needed reserves after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 – 1895.

The United States obtained portions of a Purple machine from the Japanese Embassy in Germany following Germany's defeat in 1945 ( see image above ) and discovered that the Japanese had used precisely the same " stepping switch " in its construction that Leo Rosen of SIS had chosen when building a " duplicate " ( or Purple analog machine ) in Washington in 1939 and 1940.

In the days following Germany's defeat in World War II, at the age of 12, Hannelore Kohl was raped by Red Army soldiers and subsequently “ thrown out of a window like a sack of potatoes by the Russians .” In addition to the obvious psychological impact, the attacks left her with a fractured vertebra and back pain for the rest of her life.

Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder was dissolved in 1945 following Nazi Germany's defeat in the war.

Following Germany's defeat in 1918 a council of workers and soldiers appeared during the November Revolution but was replaced by the new Weimar Republic in the following year.

Victory for the Entente was almost assured by that point, and the fact of Germany's military impotence was driven home in the following hundred days.

The Fulham East by-election in June 1933 was dominated by the issue of re-armament against Nazi Germany, following Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations.

In September 2011 Siemens, which had been responsible for constructing all 17 of Germany's existing nuclear power plants, announced that it would exit the nuclear sector following the Fukushima disaster and the subsequent changes in German energy policy.

After an economic collapse following Germany's reunification, the successor of the firm is now back in business.

In August 1939, in order to implement the first phase of this policy, Germany's Nazi government under Hitler's leadership staged the Gleiwitz incident, which was used as a for the invasion of Poland the following September.

* Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, elected as King of Finland on 7 October 1918 but never took office and renounced the throne on 4 December after Germany's defeat in World War Ihe had not time enough to arrive in Finland before the political climate changed following the end of the war.