This pan-Germanic Empire was expected to assimilate practically all of Germanic Europe into an enormously expanded Reich. As early as the autumn of 1933, Hitler envisioned annexing such territories as Bohemia, Western Poland and Austria to Germany and creation of satellite or puppet states without economies or policies of their own. The territorial claims for the Greater Germanic Reich fluctuated over time. The Greater Germanic Reich ( German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation ( German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation) was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. Generalplan Ost) from state administration and SS leadership sources Boundaries of the planned 'Greater Germanic Reich' – including possible puppet states and protectorates – based on various, only partially systematized target projections (e.g.
