prussia screw

The German states debated on how if unification of Germany should include Austria or not. In the end Germany was united by Prussia. But what if another German state united the country excluding Austria and Prussia with the borders above?

Original Artist is unknown user deleted their reddit account long time ago. How different would the 19th Century be? What would be the attitude towards this in the German states?

Like it says on the tin. Was there any way the Austrian Empire could've gotten its hands on Silesia as a result of the Treaty of Tilsit? Perhaps if the War of the Fourth Coalition was an even tougher victory for Napoleon than IOTL (the French armies were exhausted and far from home), and so he...

So alternate unifications of Germany are fascinating to me and many others on this forum. One I always find interesting is a kliendeusthland without purssia (or tradiing it for german austria). So I was thinking, what kind of post-westphallian PODs would w need to get this germany, which instead...

The Duchy of Saxony was a decent power within the northern HRE, but was torn apart due to messy successions. But what if it was able to survive past the 1200s and into the 1500s or even 1600s? Based on its geography I could see it wanting to gain more power on the north sea and pose a...

OTL, much of the early power of Prussia was in Silesia, a wealthy industrial base between Prussia and Bohemia. So what if Austria won the first Silesian War? Would Prussia still rise as a great power or would another German State like Saxony or Bavaria rise to hegemon? Would Austria be able to...

Imperator Francorum: A Napoleon II Timeline “I envy that boy. Glory is waiting there for him: I had to run after her. I will have been Phillip: he will be Alexander. He has only to extend an arm, and the world is his.”...

Sweden has been the great power of northern and eastern Europe for a long time, with most historians agreeing it surpassed it's competition some time around the 1520s. With colonies in the new world, Africa, and Asia, it and France have been the empires upon which the sun hasn't set for...

Prussia was briefly a power in central Europe before the Russian Empire razed berlin in the 7 Years War. This destruction of the baltic state meant Sweden was allowed Swedish Pomerania back (+a bit more) so long as Russia was allowed to use some of its ports. Sweden then went onto conquer...

As we all know the reign of Napoleon II is seen by most historians as the one of the most unexpected and pivotal moments in history. After the final defeat of Napoleon I at Leipzig or "The Battle of Nations" as the Coalition powers dubbed it, the French Empire quickly fell apart with France...

So, assume that Napoleon ultimately decides to destroy Prussia for good after his victory at the Battle of Friedland in 1807. The Duchy of Warsaw would still be created. How would he divide the spoils? Here's what i think: My guess is that a rump Hohenzollern state would linger on in most of...

I'm no expert at map making, obviously my maps aren't something worth mentioning in term of sophistication. However, I'm rather attached to the first map I made after learning to use Paint.net so I decided to build it in detail. I'm partly inspired by this thread by @TemporalRenegade which...

What if the prussians had won the battle of Konnigratz during the Austro-Prussian War (1866)? Would they be able to rout and defeat most of the austrian army? How does this affect the creation of the German Union? Would a prussian-created GU equivalent be more centralized than its OTL equivalent...

So this is kind of a long shot, not as much as say Anhalt or Mecklenburg doing this, but I'm really curious on how the Duchy of Prussia could've unified Germany. I'm mainly curious since the duchy is more remembered as "That damnable patch of land" which fed the great Polish-German feuds...