north german confederation

How could a forming German Empire Annex a Greater Luxembourg prior to the F-P War? This Luxembourg must also include its Lands it lost to Belgium.

The North German Confederation was a Prussian led project and precursor to the German Empire. But what if the Confederation never absorbed the southern states or Alsace-Lorraine? Perhaps Bismack reasons that a pan german unification would upset the Balance of Power too much which it did or...

Otl, Germany's swift defeat of France and conquest of Alsace-Lorraine were part of the tense relations between France and the German Empires. Started by Napoleon III's fears of a united germany, all the emperor of the third empire accomplished was the southern states joining Germany and the fall...

Okay, so how would one go about escalating the Franco-Prussian war into some sort of premature World War 1, or at least a conflict that spans across almost all of Europe? Assuming this is possible, what would such a conflict look like? How would it go? Who would be allied with the French, and...

Please comment on this, that would be most welcome! :) In this alternate scenario, Bismarck must retire during 1870 due to ill health. This isn’t that far fetched- his quasi-depression at seeing what he thought was a Prussian humilliation caused significant ill health. Thus, the Austro-Prussian...

What if Prussia manages to stay indendant and isolated from the German states? If your POD is rather late, could Prussia leaves the North German Confederation? Would the other German states (excluding Austria and Prussia) unite under one state? If not, with the situation staying the same long...

-PROLOGUE- It was a normal morning, the morning of July the 14th, in 1861. But, to Oskar Becker, it was his last morning. Camping out in the town of Baden-Baden, he knew that he would use what might be his last breaths to brighten the future of a nation, of a people long divided. The...

A question that is completely unrelated to a TL that I am totally not currently in the process of writing: IOTL, as a result of the Prussians winning the Austro-Prussian war, it annexed: Schleswig-Holstein Hesse-Kassel Nassau Hannover Frankfurt parts of Hesse-Darmstadt a small snippet of...