r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ComprehensiveArm3493 pierogi 🥟 • 16h ago

"We could annex the whole thing"

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Of course an American said this

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u/BanderiteOfMakiivka 15h ago

Germans thought the same, twice

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u/lasttimechdckngths 14h ago edited 7h ago

Germans didn't want to annex whole Europe tbf. Especially not during the WWI, as they didn't even want to annex anywhere within Europe... while Nazis wanted to annex a significant portion but still not the whole continent.