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Germans played both a destructive and a decisive role in imperialism. With the founding of Germany, rather aggressive and aspiring new powers appeared on the scene.The German colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies and territories of the German Empire. Short-lived attempts of colonization by individual German states had occurred in preceding centuries, but crucial colonial efforts only began in 1884 with the Scramble for Africa. Claiming much of the left-over colonies that were yet unclaimed in the Scramble of Africa, Germany managed to build the third largest colonial empire after the British and the French ones.During WWI they lost the land and it was taken by the enemy.

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Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg,France, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway and Western Poland.

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Poland was the most important country invaded by Germany because they imperialize close by to their country enabling them to use resource more easily.