Territorial legacy

In addition to present-day Germany, large parts of what comprised the German Empire now belong to several other modern European countries:

German name	Country	Region
Elsass-Lothringen	France	The then-German-speaking départements of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin (Alsace region) and Moselle (north-eastern part of the Lorraine region)
The Eupen und Malmédy area (intentionally spelled with é only then)	Belgium	Eupen and Malmedy, two towns and surrounding municipalities in the province of Liège, on the German border
Nordschleswig	Denmark	South Jutland County
Hultschiner Ländchen (The Sudetenland which stretched along the border to Germany belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire)	Czech Republic	Hlučín Region, on the border to Poland in Silesia, from which Germans were deported following WWII (as from the whole Sudetenland)
Central and eastern Pommern, Schlesien, Ostbrandenburg, Ermland, Masuren, Westpreußen, Southern Ostpreußen Also Posen (Wartheland).	Poland	the northern and western parts of the country, including Pomerania, Silesia, Lubusz Land, Warmia and Masuria, from all of which Germans were deported following WWII.
Northern Ostpreußen with Königsberg	Russia	Kaliningrad Oblast exclave on the Baltic, from which Germans were deported following WWII.
Memelland with Memel (city)	Lithuania	Klaipėda Region, including the Baltic coastal city of Klaipėda, from which Germans were deported following WWII.

Claims to continued existence

Since 1985, a number of German fringe groups and individuals – collectively labeled Kommissarische Reichsregierungen (KRR) – assert that the Empire continues to exist in its pre-World War II borders and that they are its government.