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Show Germany Took Deep Breath; See What Happened! 1-938 KX" nun n rv """"" V SLAVIA 1919 I(Lr j I r. .:0 V halt frT " ;v , vsuvia SETTEMSER d S" 1938 v JL ' JfeC. "-""SO; . . ij4L BUNG A IT ..y- Im-" vST Post-war Germany, minus territory terri-tory lost to France, Belgium, Poland, Danzig, Denmark and Czecho-Slo-vakia, but still a large nation. Saar basin (see arrow) joined the Reich in 1935 by plebiscite. On March 12, 1938, Hitler entered Austria Aus-tria "to restore peace." Six months later Sudetenland, the rim of Czecho-Slovakia, was added following the Munich conference which averted war. ;V" mi "m1 V 1939 1 1939 UQ J The next month the Memel territory terri-tory was handed over by Lithuania after a plebiscite; the territory was predominantly German. In September of this year, after the lightning war in Poland, Germany Ger-many took a lion's share of the spoils; Russia got the rest. Moravia and Bohemia became a "protectorate" on March 15 this year; Slovakia was taken the next day. This ended Czecbo-SIovakia. Germany's population is now more than twice that of France proper; almost three times Italy's, and considerably more than the British Isles, Canada and Australia combined. Only Russia and the United States, of western countries, have greater populations, and in Europe only Russia has more territory. |