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Christian Kleineidam's avatar

The fact that you don't see such groups has to do with the fact that they don't write in English. http://www.bund-der-vertrie... is an organization for the refugees.When they Allies took over Germany they also make sure that there isn't complete free speech in Germany. The propaganda strategy had two parts:1) Forbid the most extreme views that Germany should reclaim the territory with military force.2) WWII movies and books of the type Robin Hanson describes that paint the Allies as the just force.Politically Germany concerened itself a long time with reunification. Part of the trade to get the Allies to allow Germany to reunite was that Germany made it clear that they accepted the Eastern border.Today any German who wants to return to those territories can move there though open European borders. 

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And this is what it always boils down to. As difficult as contra-factuals are to explore, an Allied's loss would have seen what outcome for Africans, or Asians or South Americans?. Even a stalemate leading to accommodation of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan would create a world today so radically different from what we see, that it is truly a terrifying dark place to explore.    

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