Germany had gained the most this time. Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Galicia, Slovakia, and Slovenia had all basically fallen into Germany's hands.
Nor would Germany face much difficulty digesting these regions. The founding of Yugoslavia, along with the cession of Lombardy, Venice, and other areas, had instead reduced the non-German population within the Austro-Hungarian Empire by roughly ten million.
Of course, the independence of the Kingdom of Dalmatia had also caused the former Austro-Hungarian Empire to lose more than a million Germans. This was unimportant to Germany. With the German population within the Austro-Hungarian Empire added to Germany's own, Germans would account for more than 70 percent after the two countries merged. The future Greater German Empire would have a population exceeding one hundred million, with roughly eighty million Germans.
The Greater German Empire would also instantly become one of the world's six most populous nations, on par with the United States and surpassing Japan.
In fact, the Greater German Empire's population ranking in the world had not changed from the previous life, because this timeline had an additional major population power—East Africa—which ranked third in the world.
This was still the result of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's poor population growth in recent years. In barely more than a decade, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had erupted into multiple wars: first the Great War, then the Hungarian rebellion, and now the Austro-Hungarian civil war and the war of foreign intervention. Huge numbers had perished amid the flames of war or fled overseas.
Otherwise, the Greater German Empire formed by Germany's annexation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire could easily have surpassed the United States in population, rather than merely standing evenly matched with it.
After time entered 1935, the entire world knew that Europe's landscape would undergo earthshaking changes this year. Germany's annexation of the