Editing 20 July plot (section)

==== Territorial demands ====
Among demands initially countenanced by the plotters for issue towards the Allies were such points as re-establishment of Germany's 1914 boundaries with [[Belgium]], [[France]] and [[Poland]] and no reparations. Like most of the rest of German resistance, the 20 July plotters believed in the idea of [[Greater Germany]] and as a condition for peace demanded that the western allies recognize as a minimum the incorporation of [[Austria]], [[Alsace-Lorraine]], [[Sudetenland]], and the annexation of Polish-inhabited territories that Germany ceded to Poland after 1918, with the restoration of some of the overseas colonies. They believed that Europe should be controlled under German hegemony.{{sfn|Evans|2015|pp=198–199}}

The overall goals towards Poland were mixed within the plotters. Most of the plotters found it desirable to restore the old German borders of 1914, while others pointed out that the demands were unrealistic, and amendments had to be made.<ref>''German Foreign Policy''.  Klaus Hilderbrand. pp. 185–188</ref> Some like [[Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg]] even wanted all of Poland annexed to Germany.<ref>''Alternatives to Hitler: German Resistance Under the Third Reich''. Hans Mommsen. p. 161</ref>

To Poland, which was fighting against Nazi Germany with both its army and government in exile, the territorial demands and traditional nationalistic visions of resistance were not much different from the racist policies of Hitler.<ref>German Foreign Policy Klaus Hilderbrand, page 188</ref> Stauffenberg, as one of the leaders of the plot, stated five years before the coup in 1939 during the [[invasion of Poland|Poland campaign]]: "It is essential that we begin a systemic colonisation in Poland. But I have no fear that this will not occur."<ref>Peter Hoffman Stauffenberg: ''A Family History, 1905–1944''; p. 116; 2003 McGill-Queen's Press</ref><ref>War of extermination p. 137.</ref>