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My challenge is: Get Germany to keep its 1871 borders till today, but keep WW1 and WW2 happening...but Germany didn't cause either of them or get the blame for either, and didn't do any horrible things along the way - no genocides, democides, etc, and was on the "good guys" side (US, UK; perhaps neutral in WW1, and allied in WW2 could work). Austria-Hungary must fall and Austria gets its 'German Austria' borders - Teschen, German Bohemia, Sudetenland, Wieselburg / Komitat Moson, all of Carinthia, and Marburg an der Drau. Germany can keep its monarchy if it's necessary for stability's sake, but by at least the 1950s, become liberal enough that a large middle class with economic mobility emerged with freedom to speak, travel, bear arms, have fair trials, and a free press. Austria, the same. It can keep the monarchy or toss it, as it seemed to do okay without it, but bonus if it keeps it. Bonus points if France loses Briey, Belfort, to Germany, and any overseas territories to either. Change any monarchs or politicians winning/losing as needed, and the PoD should be after 1800.
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