AH Challenge: Democratic shrinkage or dissolution of Prussia

Did it stay a state afterwards or were the pre-Versailles borders between the Rhineland and the Palatinate restored? And what happened to the Hanseatic cities? Is the Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen still around or were its lands distributed as per OTL?
 
Frankly, I didn't care about these minor details.

When did the Grenzmark get distributed IOTL? Nazi times? Nevertheless, it will have to get distributed, as at least that part of the German-Polish will eventually be accepted as status quo. I got that whole Grenzmark issue bleached out by erasing the internal borders of Prussia. You may put Schneidemühl to Pomerania being geographically sensible, you may put it to Brandenburg if they already shared a constituency with Frankfurt/Oder, these are details I switched off for a moment to get to the core of the topic.

Of course, Saarland is supposed to be part of the Reich from 1935 on, I'm just too lazy to draw borders.
I also suppose to bring Danzig back into the Reich in the 1930s-40s. And I even didn't mention Austria that I'd supposed to join the Reich as one whole state.
 
The same map again, but prettier and fancier. Note I adjusted Saarland and Danzig on them.

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It is quite an interesting question what will happen next. Once Silesia leaves Prussia, I'm sure OTL Sachsen-Anhalt and Berlin will be bent on leaving next. Maybe Brandenburg as well. Which will leave rump Prussia as an archconservative Junker reservation. And about Grenzmark, I think the question whether it wants to join (relatively rich) Brandenburg or (piss-poor) Pomerania will depend on whether economic issues will prevail over social ones. But I am quite sure that Brandenburg liberals would not welcome Grenzmark in their state, since I guess Grenzmark would be a far right stronghold, even worse than East Prussia.
With regards to Bavaria, I think if there was a plebiscite, Franconia would narrowly vote to stay within Bavaria, while the Palatinate would vote equally narrowly to become independent.
 
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