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Europe in the Summer of 1945
Before the First World War, Central and Eastern Europe was either part of German, Russian or Austro-Hungarian empires. The new ethnostates all had significant minority populations left over from that earlier imperial period. All around Germany, outside the borders of Germany, there were significant populations of ethnic Germans in these neighboring countries. Hitler didn't see why he should give more credence to a 20-year-old line on a map than to the actual fact that 90% of the people there were German.