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« on: October 07, 2012, 02:51:41 PM » |
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What DC Al Fine said.
Since the Habsburgs would most likely be unwilling to cut the non-German-speaking parts of their empire loose, we're talking about creating a country that includes the territory of not only present-day Germany and Austria, but also the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, as well huge chunks of Poland and Romania. For all intents and purposes, it wouldn't be a German Empire, but a "German-Hungarian Empire".
Very impractical to hold together. Expect independence movements which are almost impossible to contain. Maybe the whole thing would even break apart without a First World War.
All of this is of course one of the main reasons (apart from the Austro-Prussian rivalry) why a Großdeutsche Lösung never came to be.
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