Has Germany's Fourth Empire Started?

Unfortunately, it is not possible to consider what is happening in Ukraine apart from the developments after the Second World War and after. After the occupation of Germany, which lost the Second World War, by the four countries that won the war, the map of Europe was redrawn.

During the Second World War, Hitler's Germany occupied a significant part of Continental Europe, at its widest border in 1941-1942. On the European mainland, only Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey remained among the countries that Hitler did not invade. The German army had also occupied Denmark, Norway, Finland in Scandinavia and the Baltic states Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The German army had occupied all of present-day Crimea, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, surrounded Leningrad (today's St. Petersburg), one of the largest cities of the Soviet Union, came very close to Moscow and headed south towards the Caucasus.

The German army besieged the Russian city of Stalingrad (today Volgograd) on August 23, 1942. With the counterattack of the Soviet Union army, the German army suffered its first major defeat in the war on February 2, 1943, and the city of Stalingrad became the farthest point Hitler's army could reach in the Barbarossa campaign to the east. After this battle, the advance of the German armies turned into a retreat.

The Barbarossa operation, organized by Hitler against the Soviet Union, was named after one of the important kings of Germany in history, Friedrich Barbarossa, the commander of the Third Crusade. Barbarossa, as his name suggests, was a king with red hair and beard. He entered Anatolia with his army to seize Jerusalem, and drowned in December 1122 in the Taurus Mountains while crossing the river with his horse. Friedrich Barbarossa, very interestingly, has his tomb in three different places. His heart and internal organs were found in St. Petersburg in Tarsus, Mersin, which is close to the place where he drowned. Paul is buried in his church. His corpse was found in Antakya, St. He was buried in Peter's Church. Later, his bones were exhumed and buried in the cathedral of the Lebanese city of Tire.

The statue seen in the photo is the statue of the Roman-Germanic emperor Friedrich Barbarossa. This statue was erected with the initiative of Germany, in the district of Mut, close to the Göksu river, where he drowned.

If we go back to the map; After the war, the USA, Britain, France and the Soviet Union occupied Germany. The USA occupied the south of Germany, England occupied the north of Germany, and France occupied the part of Germany close to France. The Soviet Union occupied the region that would be called the East German state in history. The regions occupied by England, the USA and France would later be merged, and with the participation of the Saar region, the West German state was formed. The Soviet Union designated the Oder and Neissen rivers as East Germany's eastern border. The area shown in purple on the map is the area that the US occupied in violation of the agreement and later withdrew and left to the Soviet occupation.

The Soviet Union did not give the eastern lands of Poland, which it occupied, to Poland after the war, but added it to the lands of Belarus and Ukraine. Instead of the Polish lands seized by the Soviet Union, the lands of North Prussia, which were held by Germany before the Second World War, were given to Poland. Thus, the country of Poland was shifted from east to west. The Germans living in the Prussian lands given to Poland were immigrated to Germany, and the Poles living in the Polish lands that joined the Soviet Union were immigrated to Poland. It is very difficult to think of what is happening in Ukraine today apart from Germany's defeat after the Second World War and the balance of power created between the winners of the war.

Back to the maps and pictures. The black and white photograph shows the leaders of the Second World War together. On the far left is US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, or FDR for short. Democratic Party. Next to him is the leader of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Tory. Next to Churchill is the leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Member of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Next to Adolf Hitler is Josef Stalin. Communist Party.

The year 1945, when the war ended, did not turn out well for Adolf Hitler, the loser of the war, and Roosevelt and Stalin, the winners of the war. In order not to fall into the hands of enemy soldiers, Hitler committed suicide with a pistol in his bunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Georgia on April 12, 1945. Churchill was defeated in the elections held at the end of the war and lost the prime ministership on July 26, 1945.

The map showing post-war Germany was drawn in 1947. On this map, it is possible to see the former Prussian lands that were abandoned to Poland and the former Königsberg region with the new name Kaliningrad, which was seized by the Soviet Union. Königsberg was a very important Prussian port on the Baltic Sea coast. Today, this region, which is Russian territory, has no land border with Russia.

The large map presented above shows Germany in red in 1914, 1933, 1941-1942, and 1947. Germany, which entered the First World War in 1914, is governed by the Constitutional Kingdom, also called the First Empire, which started with the Constitution of 1871. Otto von Bismarck, the founder of the First Empire, which brought the German states together, is also the first chancellor of the state. The First Empire ended in 1918 and the emperor was exiled. The Second Empire is the name given to the Weimar Republic, which lasted from 1919 to 1933, when Hitler came to power. The Third Empire is the period of Nazi Germany, from 1933, when Hitler came to power, to 1945, when the Second World War was lost. In my opinion, the Fourth Empire of Germany has begun, uniting West Germany with East Germany and making Berlin the capital of the United Germany.