Editing Pan-Germanism (section)

== History since 1945 ==
{{see also|Expulsion of Germans after World War II|Former eastern territories of Germany|Reunification of Germany}}
The defeat of Germany in [[World War II]] brought about the decline of Pan-Germanism, much as [[World War I]] had led to the demise of [[Pan-Slavism]].{{citation needed|date=March 2014}} Parts of Germany itself were devastated, and the country was divided, firstly into Soviet, French, American, and British zones and then into [[West Germany]] and [[East Germany]]. [[Allied occupation of Austria|Austria]] was separated from Germany and the [[German nationalism in Austria|German identity in Austria]] was also weakened. The end of World War II in Europe brought even larger territorial losses for Germany than the First World War, with vast [[former eastern territories of Germany|portions of eastern Germany]] directly annexed by the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Poland]]. The scale of the Germans' defeat was unprecedented; Pan-Germanism became taboo because it had been tied to racist concepts of the "[[master race]]" and ''[[Nordicism]]'' by the [[Nazi party]]. However, the [[reunification of Germany]] in 1990 revived the old debates.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://derstandard.at/1308186237768/FPOe-Parteitag-Straches-neue-Heimat-und-der-Boulevardsozialismus|work=[[Der Standard]]|title=Straches "neue" Heimat und der Boulevardsozialismus|date=16 June 2011|access-date=28 June 2011|language=de|first=Gerhard|last=Zeilinger}}</ref>{{clear left}}