After German WW2 victory, more German wars in Eastern Europe?

[Zoidberg12]

After a potential German victory in WWII, what is the likelihood of more German wars in Eastern Europe against former wartime allies? Hungary and Romania, two allies of the German Reich, had substantial ethnic German populations and the German puppet states of Slovakia and Croatia also each had German minority populations.

What is the likelihood of Germany wanting to expand to include more ethnic-German land? Would Slovakia be forcefully annexed into the German Reich like Czechia and Poland? Would Hungary, Croatia and Romania then be invaded by the German Reich?

 

[Garrison]

After a potential German victory in WWII, what is the likelihood of more German wars in Eastern Europe against former wartime allies? Hungary and Romania, two allies of the German Reich, had substantial ethnic German populations and the German puppet states of Slovakia and Croatia also each had German minority populations.

What is the likelihood of Germany wanting to expand to include more ethnic-German land? Would Slovakia be forcefully annexed into the German Reich like Czechia and Poland? Would Hungary, Croatia and Romania then be invaded by the German Reich?

Why would they need to invade? A victorious Germany can simply force them into functioning as puppet states, looting them and reducing their populations to slave status without any military action. Besides the Reich will be busy for years slaughtering tens of millions of Slavs in the former USSR.

 

[Greta Analyst]

After a potential German victory in WWII, what is the likelihood of more German wars in Eastern Europe against former wartime allies? Hungary and Romania, two allies of the German Reich, had substantial ethnic German populations and the German puppet states of Slovakia and Croatia also each had German minority populations.

What is the likelihood of Germany wanting to expand to include more ethnic-German land? Would Slovakia be forcefully annexed into the German Reich like Czechia and Poland? Would Hungary, Croatia and Romania then be invaded by the German Reich?

What reasons do you have for doing so?

Germany was interested in the annexation and colonization of Poland and the westernmost parts of the USSR.


In the rest of Europe, Germany simply put up puppet governments, it was not interested in the occupation and management of those territories. So if the Germans win you will have a kind of fascist Warsaw Pact

 

[kham_coc]

They would be more interested in repatriating those volkgermans than invading to then have even more land to colonise.

 

[jerseyguy]

There would eventually be conflict over the political status of German settlers relative to the "inner Reich" of Germany's 1914 borders. Commercial classes within the new settlements would eventually have a difference of interest from the SS and military who are in charge. Similar societal tensions that contributed to the It's a stretch, but this sort of social conflict that lead to the Teutonic Order and the Livonian Brothers of the Sword's loss of political power would eventually threaten the institutional power of the SS in the eastern territories.