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I don't know if I could claim that any nation returning to historic borders, or even extending them, is certainly overreach. And if you look at the numbers for the French invasion or the taking of Poland. 60-70,000 casualties in each conflict seems pretty well managed for a world war that would go on to hit those numbers a hundredfold
Conflating allies and wartime occupation with Germany's actual borders doesn't make for a winning argument. Compare a map of the German Empire and German speaking Europe to the borders of Nazi Germany, and you'll understand what "historic" and "not overreach" means
German Empire never includes France (sans Vichy since you refuse allies that effectively were led by German influence) German Empire never held Norwegian territory, that was Rus. Never held North African or Middle Eastern. That was British, French, Belgian, Roman, Greek, etc etc but never German. Austria, some of Poland but not all of it, is about it for hundreds of years of Germany.
Before you were conflating allies and occupation with borders, now you're adding imperial conquest in the Middle East and Africa? You're just looking for reasons to blame the victim here
You conflated historical borders of 1930's Germany with undefined borders of 18/19th century Germany as to claim validation for territorial attacks, so why then am ayh not allowed to also include territories held under Germany empirical rule (by force) in 1940's?
>extending them
>not overreach
C'mon --> https://www.history.com/d-day-operation-overlord-timeline-map/images/occupation_map.gif
Hitler could have been a living legend had he shown restraint but nope.. and then he lost for it. Truth is, he was not in charge.
It was overreaching.