unification of germany

Hello guys. I've just read in the Wiki article that there was a slight possibility of DDR hymne to be adopted as national anthem of the unified Germany: https://archive.md/20190427232132/https://rp-online.de/politik/deutschland/auferstanden-aus-ruinen-in-nationalhymne_aid-12653725 East German...

So I’ve been looking up proposals about partitioning Germany after the World Wars, and it occurred to me that the way Germany was united in the first place by a state that originally wasn’t even within the modern nation’s borders is awfully confusing. So my challenge to the Before 1900 forum is...