[82], In the aftermath of the Munich Agreement, Hitler and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier in December 1938 made an agreement that officially declared that Germany was relinquishing its previous territorial claims on Alsace-Lorraine in the interest of maintaining peaceful relations between France and Germany and both pledged to be involved in mutual consultation on matters involving the interests of both countries. Greater Germany by 1936 majorities.svg 729 × 618; 755 KB Internal divisions of Germany 1944.png 2,607 × 2,022; 571 KB Map-GermanConfederation de.svg 905 × 762; 1.09 MB Only Japan ruled a truly independent empire, encompassing much of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

[61] He was also among the group of more esoteric National Socialists who believed either Iceland or Greenland to be the mystical land of Thule, a purported original homeland of the ancient Aryan race. [31], "Großdeutschland" redirects here.

[44], This title was assumed by Hitler on 23 June 1941, at the suggestion of Himmler. 4 (Dec. 1964), p.550.

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The vast territories formally annexed as part of the Reich included Germany's boundaries, and stretched from Britain down into the continent of Europe, through the former Poland and Soviet Union, deep into Siberia, the Caucasus, and India. [10] These peoples were viewed as either "true Germanic peoples" that had "lost their sense of racial pride", or as close racial relatives of the Germans.

[100] After the war, Ribbentrop testified that in 1935 Hitler had promised to deliver twelve German divisions to the disposal of Britain for maintaining the integrity of her colonial possessions.

Labor shortages in the German war economy became critical after German defeat in the battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943. [28] This pan-Germanic empire was expected to assimilate practically all of Germanic Europe into an enormously expanded Greater Germanic Reich. Reflecting upon the First Schleswig War in 1848, Karl Marx noted in 1853 that "by quarrelling amongst themselves, instead of confederating, Germans and Scandinavians, both of them belonging to the same great race, only prepare the way for their hereditary enemy, the Slav."[7]. Very progressive! [109], A military operation plan for the invasion of Ireland in support of Operation Sea Lion was drawn up by the Germans in August 1940. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, pangermanismo (es); Pangermanïzm (kk-tr); Пангерманизм (kk-kz); Pangermanismo (eu); Pangermanisme (ca); Pangermanismus (de); Пангерманізм (be); پان‌ژرمنیسم (fa); 泛日耳曼主義 (zh); Pangermanisme (da); Pancermenizm (tr); 泛日耳曼主義 (zh-hk); Pangermanism (sv); Пангерманізм (uk); 泛日耳曼主義 (zh-hant); 泛日耳曼主义 (zh-cn); Pangermanismi (fi); Пангерманизм (kk); Tutgermanismo (eo); Pangermanismus (cs); pangermanismo (it); সর্বজার্মানবাদ (bn); pangermanisme (fr); Panxermanismo (gl); 泛日耳曼主义 (zh-hans); Pangermanizmus (sk); پانگەرمانىيزم (kk-cn); 汎ゲルマン主義 (ja); פאן-גרמניות (he); Пангерманизм (ru); Пан-германизам (mk); Chủ nghĩa Liên Đức (vi); پانگەرمانىيزم (kk-arab); Pangermanïzm (kk-latn); Pangermanisme (nl); Պանգերմանիզմ (hy); პანგერმანიზმი (ka); Пангерманизм (kk-cyrl); อุดมการณ์รวมกลุ่มเยอรมัน (th); 泛日耳曼主义 (zh-sg); Pan-Jermanisme (id); Pangermanizm (pl); pangermanisme (nb); 泛日耳曼主義 (zh-tw); 범게르만주의 (ko); Pangermanismo (pt); عظيم جرمن نظريو (sd); Pangermanisme (oc); Pan-German movement (en); رابطة الشعوب الجرمانية (ar); Παγγερμανισμός (el); پان گېرمانىزم (ug) düşünsel ve siyasal akım (tr); Пан-нацыянальная палітычная ідэя (be); اندیشه ای ملی گرایانه در آلمان (fa); politika ideo pri laŭebla ŝtata unuigo de ĉiuj germanoj (eo); pan-nationalist political idea (en) Pangermanisti, Pangermanesimo (it); パン＝ゲルマン主義, パン・ゲルマン主義, ゲルマン主義 (ja); Pangermanistes, Pangermaniste, Naissance du nationalisme allemand en Prusse au début du XIXe siècle (fr); pan-germanisme (nb); Pan-Germaans, Pan-Germaansch (nl); Pan-Germanismus (de); Pan-Germanism (en); پان ژرمنیسم (fa); Tut-ĝermanismo (eo), Library of Congress authority ID: sh85097432, Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11954257c, Administrative divisions of Germany, February 1944.png, Greater German Reich NS Administration 1944 Variant.png, Greater German Reich NS Administration 1944.png, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Greater_Germany&oldid=304357240, Uses of Wikidata Infobox providing interwiki links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), is the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. Territorially speaking, this encompassed the already-enlarged Reich itself (consisting of pre-1938 Germany plus the areas annexed into the Großdeutsche Reich), the Netherlands, Belgium, areas in north-eastern France considered to be historically and ethnically Germanic, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, at least the German-speaking parts of Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. The idea of including the North Germanic-speaking Scandinavians into a Pan-German state, sometimes referred to as Pan-Germanicism,[18] was promoted alongside mainstream pan-German ideas.