Dutch Annexation of German Territory allowed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_annexation_of_German_territory_after_World_War_II#Liberation

The proposed plan would have resulted in the following territories being annexed, with their German citizens being expelled.

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What I find interesting is that anti - German feelings in Netherlands are still supposedly pretty high although their occupation experience is not as brutal as that of Eastern Europe.

But even in the direct post war days most of Dutch pop. was against this plan.
 
I don't think anyone would want to do that I mean it is a pretty big piece of the country. No the allies are more interested in reconciliation with Germany.
 
A reduced form of this could work. I'm thinking Wilhelmshaven, Jever, East Frisia, Hanover west of the Ems, Bocholt, Rees, Cleves, Geldern, Moers, Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg, and Aachen as a maximal program. There'd be too much foreign and domestic opposition to going further than this. They sure as fuck won't get Cologne.

No the allies are more interested in reconciliation with Germany.

Not in the immediate postwar period they're not.
 
If the Dutch had 3 annexation plans I don't understand why wouldn't one be among ethnic lines.
East Frisia and the Meuse-Rhenish triangle could be more smoothly integrated into the Netherlands. Only a little less ambitious than Plan C and no need for messy expulsions.
 
All three of the plans have areas that would'nt be the best idea to transfer to the Netherlands due to population, however all three also have areas I think could be done easily.
 
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I dunno, I could see the Allies slicing off the chunks of western Germany if the Stalin letter was accepted or something. French would probably take the Saar, Belgium might even take a chunk then.
 
First of all I would like to say that although I love a Dutchwank, I am glad this never happened. I do not like the idea that my country would be involved in pretty nasty warcrimes (expulsion of the Germans of new Dutch territories) at the end of world war II.

Secondly, although we Dutch do pretend to dislike the Germans, we actually don't. The Germans are pretty decent people and very important to the Dutch economy. We just like to pretend we dislike the Germans in a big brother-litle brother way (not unlike how the Flemish hate the Dutch or the English hate the Americans, all in a friendly way).

Anyway the way for the Dutch to gain more anexations after WWII (they did gain some small parts, but all were returned in the 1960's), would need different postwar relations betwen the western allies and the Soviets. After the war the allies wanted a strong Germany as a counterbalance against the Soviets. So if the Soviets weren't considered adager, I could see various annexation of German territories by various western nations (including fr example a French Sarland). Another way could be a more succesful Soviet Union. If they managed to capture all of Germany, I think they would want to limit influence of this new Communist Germany, trying to avoid that Germany would be the major nation in the communist block instead of the Soviet Union. So they could try to split up Germany and give various German territories to neighbouring nations, including a communist or Finlandised Netherlands.
 
although we Dutch do pretend to dislike the Germans, we actually don't. The Germans are pretty decent people and very important to the Dutch economy. We just like to pretend we dislike the Germans in a big brother-litle brother way (not unlike how the Flemish hate the Dutch or the English hate the Americans, all in a friendly way).

I bet your grandpa disliked the Germans in a non-friendly way. :) At least during and right after WW2.
 
The only way I can see this possible is a TL where the WAllies end taking all of Germany ( and maybe even Poland ) and cut parts of Germany to make then weak ... This can only end bad at the end I suspect ...
 
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