Germany, Germany, Germany...what might we say about Deutschland? Was it a winner or a loser? It depends on the point of view: from an asutrian perspective they are big winners: they traded backward and unstable historical danubian empire for equally historical Holy Roman...ahem, I meant German empire; a prosperous, powerful, ethnically homogeneous state (well, if you exclude Bohemia, wich by the way was half-geman by the time).
From a wider, german perspective, well Germany lost a few non-core terriotries, but it gained Austria, Bohemia and a large leeway in the east.
Postwar will be a delicate time for Germany as for any other state; kaiser Karl and his establishment will be busy on many fronts: consolidating their rule, first of all: this will be a proiblem just in former Prussia, and not so much there, also; after all ,the Hohenzollerns are despised now (even tough Wilhelm III will be left in palce as king of Prussia), the southern, catholic states are much more akin to Asutria than to Prussia, and the westerners in Rheinland and Westphalia, were notthat totalkly fond of Prussians either...regarding Saxony, well the state had been swmnging back and from from Austria to Prussia and the other way around for centuries.
By the way, a large internal reorganization of the Empire will take place, with the precise intent, on behalf of Karl to weaken Prussia.
Austria will regain Silesia, Rheinland and Westphalia,while Hannover will be restored; Prussia will also lose Posenland and Hinterpommern to Poland.
the flag of the empire will be a modified version of the 1848 tricolour, with the Habsburg insignia upon it.
For the rest, apart from superficial changes, karl will leave the fundamental structure of the previous prussian-led empire untouched, apart from moving core institutions from Berlin to Vienna.
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