Germany Map: Territorial Losses (1919-1945)

Map created by Aeroid (Wikimedia Commons)

The map above shows the territories that were lost from Germany in the years 1919 through 1945.

The areas marked yellow on the map are the territories that Germany was forced to give away by virtue of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. These former German-controlled areas were handed over to fellow European nations such as Belgium, France, Poland, Denmark, and Lithuania.

The Free City of Danzig, shown in orange, was also a German territory before it was also lost to Poland in 1939. It is now known as the city of Gdańsk.

At the end of the Second World War in 1945, Germany’s land was lessened further with places like Pomerania and Silesia also bought out to Poland. Two countries, the Soviet Union and Poland, owned parts of the former East Prussia.

Present-day Germany is marked in blue, with divisions depicting what was West and East Germany, as well as the city of Berlin—while inside East Germany, is itself also divided between West and East—before Germany was reunified as one country in the year 1990.

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