Talk:Territorial evolution of Germany

message: My conception of this article is that it is only about changes in the territory actually formally annexed or ceded by Germany.  Thus, by this defintion, we would not include any part of France or Russia that was occupied but not formally annexed.  Similarly, a map which shows "German language area" would appear to be about something other than "official borders of Germany".  This is why I removed it from this article.
I think the map could be of use in an article which explained the motivation behind the territorial claims of German nationalists, especially the Nazis.  It could also be of use in History of German settlement in Eastern Europe.  I just don't think it is appropriate to the scope of this article.
--Richard 01:38, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: cant see any reason why to fullfill Godwin's Law ... Aborvegyro 08:48, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reversion of "German language area" map 

message: Isn't this another topic here?--Kresspahl 15:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No.  The scope of this article starts in 1871 with the creation of Germany after the Franco-Prussian war.  Thus, the Schleswig-Holstein question belongs in the article on Prussia.  --Richard 16:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig_Plebiscites were in 1920.--Kresspahl 18:08, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Schleswig-Holstein Question]]

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message: Losheim is redirected to Losheim Am See in Saarland. There is no article for Losheim in Belgium. Tiddy (talk) 06:02, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belgium 

message: Overall, the animated map is quite good in how it presents the border changes of the German state. However, after 1945 the diagram encounters numerous errors, which appear to steam from a  theoretical interpretations of history rather than facts, and are serious enough to warrant the removal of the illustration until they can be fixed —  the problems include:
*After 1945, the map still referees to the dismantled country as "German Empire", however after being occupied by the Allies, the country effectively ceased to exits, thus the occupation zones should be shown since out of them East and West Germany were re-created. 
*Also, the map shows Poland's Recovered Territories and Kaliningrad Oblast as part of Germany until 1990, this is a highly controversial and a fringe point of view, as every country in the world including the UN and East Germany recognized the Oder–Neisse line. 
In summary, the article is called Territorial evolution of Germany, hence it should not present political claims made by some in the the West German government, but the real changes in the borders of Germany. If that's the case, on the map you can just as easily dispute the changes after the Treaty of Versailles, since the German government in the 1920's and 30's refused to accept the legitimacy of those border changes — claiming that they were agreed to under duress. Also, Germany illegally took over the rest of Czechoslovakia, even though it was only given the Sudetenland, and the German administrative division of Poland was never accepted by any one… so if we want to base the map on theoretical claim then it's wrong from that perspective as well. In short, the map should not present the theoretical border of Germany, but the actual borders.   --E-960 (talk) 16:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, removed this map after it was re-added—the map was showing theoretical 'territorial claims' made by some political groups in West Germany, not actual borders, which were recognized by the UN.--E-960 (talk) 22:51, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animated Map: History of the German State since 1867 

message: Shouldn't this word appear in the article somewhere? I'm no expert, but I thought Hitler said that's what Germany needed, especially with the Sudetensland. deisenbe (talk) 12:51, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lebensraum 

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message: I want to know 144.138.49.51 (talk) 12:24, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The article appears to be a stub by truncating the ancient and medieval history of the German territory. Gim709 (talk) 13:19, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearly. 14.162.172.11 (talk) 10:00, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  When  did Germany  start? 

message: The redirect Territorial changes of germany has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Eurohunter (talk) 17:50, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
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