Do you think that Germany should be given back her territories lost in the World Wars?

Let's go back just a little further and note that newly-unified Germany stole Alsace and Lorraine from France in 1871 - those two provinces were restored to France in 1919 after WW1.

And before 1871 Germany did not exist as a nation - it was a collection of sometimes squabbling princedoms and provinces and petty kingdoms.

And how would you now take a lot of territory from Russia and give it to Poland, in order for Germany to reclaim its eastern parts from Poland? Poor Poland - partitioned into 3 parts between Prussia, Russia, and Austria in the 1700s, then with its borders moved bodily westwards by 100 miles in 1945.

The more you look at European history the more you will see that borders and countries have changed hugely over the centuries. In the early 1990s 17 new countries were created in Europe, or on its edges, so the map you now have of Europe is quite a bit different from the map I grew up with in the 1950s, and different again from the map my parents knew in their schooldays in the early 1920s. And indeed around the Caucasus mountains the border of Europe itself moved about 100 miles north in the early 1990s.

Why did you not ask about the lands lost by Austria in 1919? That country (as "Austria-Hungary") was huge in Eastern Europe, now it is a small country.

Or why not go back to when the Ottoman Turkish Empire held most of south-eastern Europe, almost to the gates of Vienna?

No, Germany was not the only country to have border changes. Giving Germany back what was taken as part of the treaties of the World Wars would only create a situation that would create another European War.

You might want to check out maps of Europe before and after each of the wars.

Germany's territories are now independent nations, just taking it back would been seen as an invasion under international law and could spark war.

No Time to Give back all of what Germany has lost they paid their dues and only about 1% are old enough to have been involved with WW2 her last war.

No Time to Give back all of what Germany has lost they paid their dues and only about 1% are old enough to have been involved with WW2 her last war

If we go that route then Poland and Finland want back the territory ceded to Russia - hello World War 3.

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Nope, Just like I don't think the Arab territories in Palestine should get returned

If you are going to start art a war....and then LOSE....sucks to be you

She tried to steal land from other nations. She lost the wars and the conquests. The people wanted to be independent from Germany. Start a war of conquest, lose it, and see for yourself.

No.

It's an unfortunate fact that ownership of territory is typically decided by military conquest, but sometimes (such as in the cases you mention) it is additionally agreed upon by treaty.

You are asking, "Should we ignore two particular past treaties and give Germany some unspecified territory acquired from that nation by military conquest and treaty, which Germany itself acquired in the past by means of military conquest?"

Shouldn't Germany then return all of the territory that they acquired by military conquest in the past to the "previous owners"?

And shouldn't those "previous owners" then return all of the territory that they acquired by military conquest in the past to the "previous owners"?

And so on?

Who, then, would own that territory?