The Rhine and Danube rivers both run partially through Germany towards the North Sea and the Black Sea respectively, whilst the Elbe, Oder, and Weser all run to the German coastline and the major ports of Hamburg, Stettin, and Bremen. The southern border with Switzerland and Austria is somewhat mountainous, although very little Alpine territory actually resides within prewar German borders Lake Constance (the Bodensee) forms part of this southern border with Switzerland and Austria. Foothills dominate the Czechoslovakian border. Much of the German interior is heavily forested, most prominent being the Black Forest region near the Alsatian border.

The coastline consists mostly of flat, arable land and the East Frisian marshes, which together form part of the North European Plain. The border states of Rhineland and Moselland are demilitarised in 1936, and the German Reich cannot move forces into the area until it completes the Rhineland national focus.

Additionally, the exclave of East Prussia runs from the Baltic Sea to the north to LithuaniaВ to the northeast and has Poland to the east, south, and west. Clockwise from the north, Germany borders Denmark, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1936, the German ReichВ is one of the largest countries in Europe, spanning parts of both Western and Central Europe from the Rhine to Silesia, and from the North and Baltic Seas to the Alps.

Historically, the German Reich precipitated the Second World War by attacking Poland on 1 September 1939, and the German Reich closed the European Theatre of the Second World War by its surrender between 4 May and. It was the primary Axis PowerВ in the European Theatre. The German Reich (Deutsches Reich)В was instituted in 1933 and led by Adolf Hitler.

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