Germany lost forty percent of its 1937 territory through postwar border changes

Evidence

The occupation and division of Germany, the dissolution of Prussia, the flight or expulsion of some twelve million ethnic Germans from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Balkans, and the emergence of two blocs dominated by the Soviet Union and the United States, altered the geography that sustained previous visions of empire. Germany’s losses exceeded those of the Great War. In addition to its civilian and military casualties, the contraction of its eastern borders to the Oder and Neisse Rivers resulted in the loss of forty percent of its interwar territory as of 1937 before the Nazi annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 179

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Expellee organizations sustained West German revanchism by reinforcing refusal to accept the postwar border — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 190; Japanese officials sought German territorial-revision tactics as their own irredenta faded — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 1631; The Berlin Wall’s uneventful construction forced West German policy change on eastern revisionism — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 192 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Expellee organizations sustained West German revanchism by reinforcing refusal to accept the postwar border #corroborates (0.82) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 190
• Decades of ideological re-education failed to erase Eastern-border revisionism in East Germans #corroborates (0.80) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 388
• Japanese officials sought German territorial-revision tactics as their own irredenta faded #corroborates (0.75) — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East, 1631
• The Berlin Wall’s uneventful construction forced West German policy change on eastern revisionism #complicates (0.72) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 192