Editing Volksdeutsche (section)

===Treaty of Versailles===
{{Main|Treaty of Versailles}}
[[File:Deutsche Siedlungsgebiete in Osteuropa 1925.jpg|thumb|Distribution of the German population in 1910 on the map of countries existing in 1925 in Central and Eastern Europe]]
The [[Second Republic of Poland|reconstitution of Poland]] following the [[Treaty of Versailles]] (1919) made ethnic German minorities of some [[Provinces of Prussia|Prussian provinces]] of the [[German Empire]] citizens of the Polish [[nation state]]. Ethnic German inhabitants of provinces of the dissolved [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], such as [[Bukovina Germans]], [[Danube Swabians]], [[Sudeten Germans]] and [[Transylvanian Saxons]], became citizens of newly established [[Slavs|Slavic]] or [[Hungarian people|Magyar]] nation-states and of Romania. Tensions between the new administration and the ethnic German minority arose in the [[Polish Corridor]]. The [[Austrians|Austrian Germans]] also found themselves not allowed to join Germany as [[German Austria]] was strictly forbidden to join [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] as well as the name "German Austria" was forbidden so the name was changed back to just "Austria" and the [[First Austrian Republic]] was created in 1919.