à la Poland in previous centuries or Austria-Hungary and Germany after the First World War. The headline above the map from ...

There are 46,000 of them left, the last of the 5,000,000 displaced persons who surged into Germany after World War II and huddled there. The rest have been sent back to their own countries or ...

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders ... The German Empire became Germany, and Germany lost substantial territory outside Europe.