AHC: Netherlands up to the Weser

koninkrijk holland under Louis Napoleon also included departement oost-friesland, which just touched the weser.But guess you want it to be a little more, where the early dutch language area is also the actual territory




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koninkrijk holland under Louis Napoleon also included departement oost-friesland, which just touched the weser.But guess you want it to be a little more, where the early dutch language area is also the actual territory

Okay, didn't know that.

Edited my original post.
 
I think there were discussion to that effect both after Napoleon's defeat and in the aftermath of WWII. Actually I read it somewhere on this forum but don't recall the details.
It is sort of strange, in a sense, that some bits of Germany that are linguistically more or less Dutch weren't given to the Netherlands back then, but I suppose the local people very emphatically thought and think of themselves as Germans.
 
I think the best way would be during the Congress of Vienna. Prussia wanted Luxemburg, which had been part of the Southern Netherlands. So a deal is made at Vienna that Prussia would gain Luxemburg and the Netherlands gains East-Frisia and a Weser border as compensation.

Bakker-Schut, the megalomaniac idea after WWII that the Netherlands gain large parts of Germany as compensation of the German occupation could in theory work too, but I doubt the Western allies would agree with it. Maybe after WWI in which Germany attacked the Netherlands as well as Belgium, it could work.
 
Up to the Ems sounds plausible for a post-ww2 or post-bonaparte peace.

Up to the Weser only has a chance in a post-bonaparte.
 
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