Territorial evolution of Germany
The territorial evolution of Germany in this article includes all changes in the modern territory of Germany from its unification making it a country on 1 January 1871 to the present, although the history of both the German state as a territorial polity concept and the history of the ethnic Germans are much longer and much more complex. Modern Germany was formed when the Kingdom of Prussia unified most of the German states, with the exception of multi-ethnic Austria (which was ruled by the German-speaking royal family of Habsburg and had significant German-speaking land), into the German Empire. As a result of its loss in the First World War, the 1919 Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany cede about 13% of its territory to its neighbours; its colonies were lost at the same time. The Weimar Republic was formed two days before the end of fighting in WWI. This republic included territories to the east of today's German borders. The period of Nazi rule from the early 1930s through the...
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